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Romanticism's Generative Reading.

De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online

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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 &amp
Bright &amp
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.
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Print version: Wolfson, Susan J. Romanticism's Generative Reading
ISBN:
9780691262260
OCLC:
1593997679

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