Alternative Romanticisms

Subject: Volume 15 of Studien zur englischen Romantik contains the revised versions of papers delivered at the Ninth International Symposium of the German Society for English Romanticism, which was organised by the Chair of English Literature at Chemnitz University of Technology and which took place in Grimma, Saxony, in October 2001. Contents: Introduction – The Romantic Ideology Revisited – Romantic to Victorian: Transition and Terminology – Irish Romanticism and the Traumatic Paradigm – The Prison: An Unromantic Location – John Thelwall’s ‘Romantic’ Genres and National Myths – William Beckford’s Real and Imaginary Travels – Women Travel Writers of the Romantic Period – Coleridge and Wordsworth in Germany – P. B. Shelley’s Letters and the 18th-Century Epistolary Novel – Conflicting Sexualities in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – Byron’s Corsair an the Page and an the Stage – Wordsworth’s Visions and Revisions of the Middle Ages – Introducing a Bibliography Project: A Survey of Romantic Prose Fiction, 1830-34.