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Romanticism's Generative Reading.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolfson, Susan J.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- In Romanticism's Generative Reading , Susan Wolfson convenes an innovative array of subjects, texts, and cultural situations: lightning, Frankenstein, textual editing, Shakespeare read by girls, and William Empson's revelatory influence.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Forecast Reading Generates
- The Charges of Reading
- Why, then, Romanticism?
- 1. Lightning's Generators
- The Spirit of the Age
- "Lightning and the electric stroke
- Byron's Brand: "This is my Lightning!
- The Shelleys' Lightning
- Writing Lightning
- 2. Re:Genesis
- or, Frankenstein's Origin-Stories
- "some account of the origin of the story
- Back-Stories, Book Stories
- The Book is Born
- A Shadow-text: "There have Been Several Conjectures with Regard to his Origin
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Original Author
- 3. Mary Shelley's New Generations
- Fragmented Life
- Monster to Martyr
- Poet Shelley Anew
- Recreating Shelley
- Mary Shelley Regenerated
- 4. Genetic Twins: Jane Austen and "Jane Austen
- Part One: Pride and Prejudice: Shading "Light &
- Bright &
- Sparkling
- Part Two: Regenerating the Case Against Emma at Box Hill: The Reader's Dilemma
- Part Three: Quizzing Northanger Abbey
- 5. Generative Shakespeare and Romantic Girls
- "part of an englishman's constitution
- Scandalous Shakespeare
- Managing Shakespeare
- Reading Unbound
- Telling Tales
- 6. "a good, quick, and pregnant capacitie": William Empson's Generous Pregnancy
- Why Empson?
- Midwife
- Pregnant Suggestion, Pregnant Sense, Shakespeare's Women, and Some Austen
- The School of Eve: Regrading Genesis
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wolfson, Susan J. Romanticism's Generative Reading
- ISBN:
- 9780691262260
- OCLC:
- 1593997679
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