‘A something given’: Two Versions of The Leechgatherer
in Coleridge, Wordsworth and the Language of Allusion
March 2001; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 8926 words.
This chapter demonstrates the major change which takes place in Wordsworth's thinking while he made his alterations to the text of The Leechgatherer. It suggests that this change marks not only a...
‘A Soulless Toy for Tyrant's Lust?’: The Heroine as Passive Victim
in Byron's Heroines
September 1992; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 13216 words.
In Lord Byron's tales, the heroine has to choose between love and conformity. However, this chapter shows that Byron deconstructs the romantic love of man for woman as the uneasy conjunction of these...
‘A Strong Confusion’: Coleridge's Presence in The Prelude
in Coleridge, Wordsworth and the Language of Allusion
March 2001; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 11117 words.
Wordsworth's triumph in The Prelude rests not just on his inability to write The Recluse, but on his refusal to do so. And if he succeeds in asserting his independence, he must accept the guilt...
‘A Sympathy with Power’
in Wordsworth and Coleridge
April 1990; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 11638 words.
This chapter suggests that in 1794–1795 Maximilian Robespierre was a monitory but not necessarily unattractive figure for William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and John Thelwall, and argues...
“A Tangled Skein”
in Working Women, Literary Ladies
February 2008; published online May 2008.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 13173 words.
This chapter explores how two middle-class women writers shaped early and dramatically different versions of the new female factory worker. The chapter juxtaposes Sarah Savage's 1814 novel, The...
‘A Vision of Reality’: Mid‐to‐Late Yeats
in The All-Sustaining Air
September 2007; published online September 2007.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 12959 words.
This chapter on Yeats explores the work of his mid-to-late career. It begins by examining ‘Ego Dominus Tuus’, a pivotal poem written in a crucial period for Yeats, and one in which he sharpens his...
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Overview page. Subjects: literary studies (19th century).
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in The Oxford Companion to the Brontës
January 2006; published online January 2011.
Reference Entry. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 12 words.
is a ‘fashionable watering place’ in *Agnes Grey. See scarborough.
‘Aaron Trow’
in Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope
January 1999; published online January 2011.
Reference Entry. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 106 words.
was first serialized in Public Opinion, 14 and 21 December 1861 (reprinted in TAC2). A savagely realistic convict
Abandoned and Adopted in a New World
in Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature
March 2011; published online May 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 13662 words.
The early Puritans ambivalently left England, the mother country, portraying themselves as abandoned orphans. Sustained by the belief that they were chosen people, they also emulated...