Romanticism and the Object

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Romanticizing The Object....Pages 1-7
“Things Forever Speaking” and “Objects of all Thought”....Pages 9-16
“Perfectly Compatible Objects”: Mr. Pitt Contemplates Britain And South America....Pages 17-36
Children as Subject and Object: Shelley v. Westbrook....Pages 37-49
“I‘ll Contrive a Sylvan Room”: Certainty and Indeterminacy in Charlotte Smith’s Beachy Head, the Fables, and Other Poems (1807)....Pages 51-69
“A Better Guide in Ourselves”: Objects, Romantic-Protestant Ethics, and Fanny Price’s Individualism....Pages 71-94
The Literal and Literary Circulation of Amelia Curran’s Portrait of Percy Shelley....Pages 95-107
Shelley Incinerated....Pages 109-116
Keats and the Impersonal Craft of Writing....Pages 117-135
“Tun’d to Hymns of Perfect Love”: The Anglican Liturgy as Romantic Object in John Keble’s The Christian Year....Pages 137-157
Journeys to the East: Shelley and Novalis....Pages 159-175
Weighing It Again....Pages 177-199
Back Matter....Pages 201-223