Romanticism and form /

Table Of Contents:

List of Illustrations vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction xii

Alan Rawes

Romantic Indirection 1(22)

Paul M. Curtis

`Conscript Fathers and Shuffling Recruits': Formal Self-awareness in Romantic Poetry 23(17)

Michael O'Neill

Romantic Invocation: A Form of Impossibility 40(20)

Gavin Hopps

`Ruinous Perfection': Reading Authors and Writing Readers in Romantic Fragments 60(18)

Mark Sandy

Combinatoric Form in Nineteenth-century Satiric Prints 78(17)

Steven E. Jones

Romantic Form and New Historicism: Wordsworth's `Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey' 95(21)

Alan Rawes

Southey's Forms of Experiment 116(22)

Nicola Trott

Believing in Form and Forms of Belief: The Case of Robert Southey 138(16)

Bernard Beatty

The Seductions of Form in the Poetry of Ann Batten Cristall and Charlotte Smith 154(17)

Jacqueline M. Labbe

`Seldom Safely Enjoyed by Those Who Enjoyed it Completely': Byron's Poetry, Austen's Prose and Forms of Narrative Irony 171(21)

Caroline Franklin

`What Constitutes a Reader?' Don Juan and the Changing Reception of Romantic Form 192(21)

Jane Stabler

Martin H. Fischer

Andrew Michael Roberts

Maria Nella Carminati
Afterword: Romanticism's Forms 213(12)

Susan J. Wolfson
Select Bibliography 225(3)
Index 228