The Politics of Romanticism

Contents PASCAL FISCHER AND CHRISTOPH HOUSWITSCHKA Introduction: The Politics of Romanticism .................................................................... 1 ANTHONY JOHN HARDING Romanticism and the Politics of Dissent: From Religious Liberty to Romantic Radicalism ......................................................... 13 ROLF LESSENICH Millennial Hope Shattered: William Godwin's Travels of St Leon and Romantic Scepticism ............................................................................................. 23 KIRSTY J. HARRIS Ill-Starr'd Wanderers: Exile, Refuge, and Charlotte Smith's The Emigrants ................ 31 KATRIN RÖDER Hospitality as a Precarious Ethico-Political Practice in Charlotte Smith's The Young Philosopher ............................................................... 41 NICHOLAS ROE Placing Displacement: Wordsworth and Coleridge in the 1790s ................................. 55 JACOB LLOYD "far in some sequester'd dell": The Politics of Retirement in the Poetic Dialogue of John Thelwall and Samuel Taylor Coleridge ....................... 71 IAN DUNCAN Don Giovanni Automaton ............................................................................................ 81 TILOTTAMA RAJAN Godwin's Fleetwood and the Persistence of Dissensus ................................................ 91 DENNIS WEIßENFELS Body Politic and National Body: Political Myth-Making and Romantic Nationalism in John Bull's Bible ......................................................... 107 GAVIN SOURGEN The Revolt of Islam and the Politics of Form ............................................................. 119 STEFANIE FRICKE Barbary Captivity in the Romantic Age ..................................................................... 129 PETER J. KITSON Romantic Nationalism, De Quincey and the Public Debate about the First Opium War, 1839-42 ......................................................................... 141 MIROSLAWA MODRZEWSKA AND GRA YNA B. TOMASZEWSKA The Institution of Romanticism in Polish Culture: Trends and Politics ..................... 155 MIHAELA IRIMIA Decebalus's Ancestral Voice Prophesying National Unity: Romanian Romanticism and the Politics of Ethno-Genetic Identity .......................... 163 MATHELINDA NABUGODI Allegorical Realism: Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin's Reading of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Political Verse .................................................................. 171 FREDERICK BURWICK Shelley's Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant: George IV and the Adultery Trial of Queen Caroline ................................................ 185 ANGELA ESTERHAMMER Political Economy and Narrative Performance in John Galt's The Entail .................. 193 JUDITH THOMPSON 'Affiance on Affiance Multiply': John Thelwall and the Hope of Future Time .......... 203