Reviews
With philosophical sophistication and extraordinary critical intelligence, Rajan also presents complex and original readings.
Innovative.
A quiet sensation of a book... The concision and sparkling lucidity of Romantic Narrative tends to be something much more than a theory of narrativity. As a larger argument about the epistemic and disciplinary questions that emerged out of the 18th century arguments about acculturation, institutionalization, and theory, Rajan brilliantly excavates the fractures in various Enlightenment projects of progress and assimilation, and illuminates a negativity that colors Romanticism through and through.
This is first-rate, indeed exemplary work, polished and elegant in conception, unfailingly cogent in execution, meticulously researched, and presented in impressively readable diction.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
1. The Trauma of Lyric: Shelley's Missed Encounter with Poetry in Alastos
2. Shelley's Promethean Narratives: Gothic Anamorphoses in Zastrozzi, St
Acknowledgments
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
1. The Trauma of Lyric: Shelley's Missed Encounter with Poetry in Alastos
2. Shelley's Promethean Narratives: Gothic Anamorphoses in Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, and Prometheus Unbound
3. Unbinding the Personal: Autonarration, Epistolarity, and Genotext in Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney
4. The Scene of Judgment: Trial and Confession in Godwin's Caleb Williams and Other Fiction
5. Gambling, Alchemy, Speculation: Godwin's Critique of Pure Reason in St. Leon
6. Whose Text? Godwin's Editing of Mary Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of Woman
Notes
Works Cited
Index