Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Romanticism and Anti-Self Consciousness, Geoffrey Hartmand 2. Time and History in Wordsworth, Paul de Man 3. The Notion of Blockage in the Literature of the Sublime, Neil Hertz 4. Past Recognition - Narrative Origins in Freud and Wordsworth, Cathy Caruth 5. Splitting the Race of Men in Twain - Prostitution, Personification, and "The Prelude", Mary Jacobus 6. Literary Gentlemen and Lovely Ladies - The debate on the character of "Christabel",Karen Swann 7. Bearing Demons - "Frankenstein" and the Circumvention of Maternity, Margaret Homans 8. Introduction to Keats's "Life of Allegory", Marjorie Levinson 9. Byron's "Sardanapalus" and the Triumph of Liberalism, Jerome Christensen 10. Unbinding Words - "Prometheus Unbound", Carol Jacobs Notes on Authors Further Reading Index

About the Author

Cynthia Chase teaches courses in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell Unviersity, USA.