Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism

287 Pages·2008·1.299 MB·English

by  Labbe, Jacqueline(Editor)

CHARLOTTE SMITH IN
BRITISH ROMANTICISM
The Enlightenment World:
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CHARLOTTE SMITH IN
BRITISH ROMANTICISM
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Jacqueline Labbe
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Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism. – (Th e Enlightenment world)
1. Smith, Charlotte Turner, 1749–1806 – Infl uence 2. Smith, Charlotte Turner,
1749–1806 – Criticism and interpretation 3. Romanticism – Great Britain
I. Labbe, Jacqueline M., 1965–
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CONTENTS
Contributors vii
List of Figures ix
Introduction – Jacqueline Labbe 1
I. Advancing Poetry
1 ‘Herself […] Fills Th e Foreground’: Negotiating Autobiography
in the Elegiac Sonnets and Th e Emigrants – Kerri Andrews 13
2 From Nosegay to Specimen Cabinet: Charlotte Smith and the
Labour of Collecting – Dahlia Porter 29
3 Th e Figure of the Hermit in Charlotte Smith’s Beachy Head
– Kari Lokke 45
4 Th e Subject of Beachy Head – Christoph Bode 57
II. Writing Only to Live: Novels
5 ‘Th e Slight Skirmishing of a Novel Writer’: Charlotte Smith and
the American War of Independence – Barbara Tarling 71
6 Charlotte Smith, the Godwin Circle, and the Proliferation of
Speakers in Th e Young Philosopher – A. A. Markley 87
7 Th e Alien Act and Negative Cosmopolitanism in Th e Letters of a
Solitary Wanderer – Amy Garnai 101
8 Narrating Seduction: Charlotte Smith and Jane Austen – Jacque-
line Labbe 113
9 Charlotte Smith’s Th e Banished Man in French Translation; or,
Th e Politics of Novel-Writing during the French Revolution
– Katherine Astbury 129
III. Private Th eatricals and Posthumous Lives
10 ‘Th is Village Wonder’: Charlotte Smith’s What Is She? and the
Ideological Comedy of Curiosity – Diego Saglia 145
11 Recovering Charlotte Smith’s Letters: A History, With Lessons
– Judith Phillips Stanton 159
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12 Intertextualities – Stuart Curran 175
13 Charlotte Smith, Women Poets, and the Culture of Celebrity
– Stephen C. Behrendt 189
14 ‘Tell My Name to Distant Ages’: Th e Literary Fate of Charlotte
Smith – Louise Duckling 203
Notes 219
Works Cited 257
Index 273
CONTRIBUTORS
Kerri Andrews is a lecturer at Nottingham Trent University.
Katherine Astbury is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the Department of
French Studies at the University of Warwick.
Stephen C. Behrendt is University Professor and George Holmes Distinguished
Professor of English at the University of Nebraska.
Christoph Bode is Chair of Modern English Literature at the University of
Munich.
Stuart Curran is Vartan Gregorian Professor of English at the University of Penn-
sylvania.
Louise Duckling is an independent scholar.
Amy Garnai teaches in the Department of English and American Studies at Tel
Aviv University.
Jacqueline Labbe is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Lit-
erary Studies at the University of Warwick.
Kari Lokke is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California,
Davis.
A. A. Markley is Associate Professor of English at Penn State University, Brandy-
wine.
Dahlia Porter is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
Diego Saglia is Associate Professor of English at Università di Parma, Italy
Judith Phillips Stanton is an independent scholar.
Barbara Tarling is a research student in the Department of English at the Open
University.
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 2.1: Charles Wilson Peale, Th e Long Room, Interior of the Front
Room in Peale’s Museum (1822). Reproduced by permission of the
Detroit Institute of Arts 37
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