Reviewing Romanticism 1992 edition

Marc Notes: Selection of papers given at a conference held at King Alfred's College, Winchester, in April 1989--Pref; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Acknowledgements - Preface - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; P. W. Martin & R. Jarvis - A Modern Electra: Matricide in the Writings of Mary and Charles Lamb; J. Aaron - Editing the Waverley Novels; J. H. Alexander & P. Garside - Reviewing Romanticism: The Sea and the Book; B. Beatty - Frankenstein and the Language of Monstrosity; F. Botting - Mary Shelley: Immortality, Gender and the Rosy Cross; M. Roberts - The Politics of the Gothic Heroine in the 1790s; E. Clery - Peter Wilkins: A Romantic Cult Book; N. Crook - Literature and Feeling: New Directions in the Theory of Romanticism; K. Everest - Opium and the Imperial Imagination; J. McDonagh - Romantic Subjects: Shaping the Self from 1789 to 1989; V. Newey - Pierce Egan and the Representation of London; R. Sales - Preparations for Happiness: Mary Wollstonecraft and Imagination; J. Whale - Index

Contributor Bio:  Martin SHERRILL V. MARTIN is Associate Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Contributor Bio:  Jarvis, Robin Robin Jarvis started writing and illustrating his own books in 1988 and, with his acclaimed Deptford Mice and Whitby Witches titles, quickly acquired a reputation as a bestselling children s author. He has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Prize and Smarties Award, and twice won the Lancashire Libraries Children s Book of the Year Award. Amongst children, his work has a cult following. Robin Jarvis lives in Greenwich, London.