Reserve Reading List for English 372

Spring 2004

 

NB. all the articles below are photocopies and in folders. Articles are also in the following collections:

 

The Age of William Wordsworth. Eds. Johnston and Ruoff, 1993

Blake in the Nineties. Eds. Clark and Worrall, 1999

Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Ed. Curran, 1993

Cambridge Companion to William Blake. Ed. Eaves, 2003

The Evidence of the Imagination. Eds. Reiman, Jaye, Bennett, 1978

Images of Romanticism. Ed. Kroeber and Walling, 1978

Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion. Ed. Pfau and Gleckner, 1998

Politics of the Picturesque. Eds. Copley and Garside,

Romantic Poetry: Recent Revisionary Criticism. Eds. Kroeber and Ruoff, 1987

Romantic Revolutions, Criticism and Theory. Eds. Johnson, Ghaitin, Hanson, Marks, 1990

Romanticism. A Critical Reader. Ed. Wu, 1995

William Blake: Images and Texts. Ed. Robert N. Essick, 1997

 

The English Romantic Poets, A Review of Research and Criticism. Fourth edition, ed.

          Frank Jordan. MLA, 1985

 

Abrams, M.H. “On Political Readings of Lyrical Ballads.” From Romantic Revolutions,

         Criticism and Theory. Eds. Kenneth Johnston, Gilbert Chaitin, Karen Hanson, and

         Herbert Marks. Indiana University Press, 1990.

 

Addison and Steele. “On Genius.” [1711] The Spectator.  From Eighteenth Century Poetry

         and Prose. Ed. Louis I. Bredvold, et al. 2nd ed.

 

Barrell,  John. “A Republic of Taste.” Introduction to The Political Theory of Painting

         from Reynolds to Hazlitt.

 

Belsham, William.  Essays, Philosophical, Historical, and Literary. Vol. II. [late 18th c]

 

Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Trans.

          Harry Zohn. Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (with notes); and online

          version printed out

          (http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/dwyman/Music100wFiles/ArtInTheAge.htm)

 

Bromley, R. A Philosophical and Critical History of the… Vol. 1. [late 18th c]

 

Burke, Edmund. “A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and

          Beautiful.” [1756] From Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose.  Also online.

 

Buzard, James. “A Continent of Pictures: Reflections on the ‘Europe’ of Nineteenth

          Century Tourists.” PMLA 108 (1993): 30-44.

 

Clark,  Michael. “Drawing Masters,” from A Tempting Prospect: A Social History of

          Water Colors. 1981.

 

De Bolla, Peter. Introduction from The Discourse of the Sublime: Readings in History,

          Aesthetics, and the Subject.

 

De Luca, Vincent Arthur. “Blake’s Concept of the Sublime.” From Romanticism, A

          Critical Reader.  Ed. Duncan Wu. 17-54.

 

Draper, John. Bibliography of 18th-century Aesthetics.

 

Duff, William. “An Essay on Genius.” London, 1767.

 

Eaves,  Morris. Blake and the Artistic Machine: An Essay I Decorum and Technology."
          PMLA vol 92, no. 5 (October 1977): 903-927.

 

---. “Graphicality: Multimedia Fables for ‘Textual’ Critics.” Reimagining

          Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print. Eds. Neil Fraistat and

          Elizabeth Bergmann Loiseaux. 99-122.

 

---. "Inquiry into the Real and Imaginary Obstructions to the Acquisition of the Arts in

          England: The Comedy of the English School of Painting." Huntington Library

          Quarterly 52 (Winter 1989): 125-138.

 

---.  Review: "The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt." Studies in
          Romanticism 27 (Fall 1988): 429-442.

 

---. "Romantic Expressive Theory and Blake's Idea of the Audience." PMLA vol 95, no. 5
          (October 1980): 784-801. (see William Blake's Theory of Art, Princeton U.
          Press, 1982)

 

---. “The Sister Arts in British Romanticism.” From Cambridge Companion to British
         Romanticism. Ed. Stuart Curran.

 

Essays on Original Genius: Addison, Belsham, Duff, Schelling, Young. (See also Gerard’s

         essay and Blake’s concept of the “Poetic Genius” in All Religions are One and

         There is No Natural Religion, both 1788.

 

Essick, Robert N.  “Gender, Transgression, and the Two Wordsworths in ‘Tintern

         Abbey,’” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 36. (Fall 1994): 291-

         305.

 

"William Blake, William Hamilton, and the Materials of Graphic Meaning." ELH  vol. 52

         (1985): 833-872.

 

---. “William Blake, Thomas  Paine, and Biblical Revolution,” Studies in Romanticism, 30

         (Summer 1991): 190-212.

 

---. “Representation,  Anxiety, and the Bibliographical Sublime,” typescript to lecture

 

Essick and Viscomi, “Inquiry into Blake’s Method of Color Printing,” Blake/An

          Illustrated Quarterly (Winter 2001/02): 73-102.  www.ibiblio.org/jsviscom/inquiry

 

Essick and Viscomi, “Blake’s Method of Color Printing: Some Responses and Further

         Observations,” Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly (Fall 2002): 49-64.

         http://www.rochester.edu/college/eng/blake/response/text.html

 

Fabricant, Carole. “The Literature of Domestic Tourism and the Public Consumption of

         Private Property.” From The New Eighteenth Century Theory, Politics, English

         Literature. Ed. Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown. 254-75. 

 

Fox, Celina. “The Engravers’ Battle for Professional Recognition in Early 19th c. London.”

         London Journal  2 (May 1976): 3-31.

 

Fullerton, Peter. “Patronage and Pedagogy: The British Institution in the early 19th

         Century.” Art History  5 (1982): 59-72.

 

Gage, John. “An Early Exhibition and the Politics of British Printmaking 1800-1812.”

         Print Quarterly   6 (1989): 123-139.

 

Gerard, Alexander. from An Essay on Genius.. London,1774.

 

Gibson-Wood, Carol. “Jonathon Richardson and the Rationalization of Connoisseurship.”

         Art History  7 (1984): 38-56.

 

Gilpin, William, Landscape, a Poem.

 

Greenburg, Mark L. “Romantic Technology: Books, Printing, and Blake’s Marriage of

         Heaven and Hell.  from Literature and Technology.  Ed. Greenburg and

         Schachterle. 154-

 

---. and Lance Schachterle. “Introduction: Literature and Technology.” From Literature

         and Technology. 13-24.

 

Hazlitt, William.  On the Pleasure of Painting. 1820. In Course Pack

 

Hermann, Luke. “Turner and Constable.” From Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition catalogue,

         The Print in England.

 

Hipple, W. J. "Edmund Burke," from The Beautiful, The Sublime, and the Picturesque

 

Hoare, Prince. “Preface, Chap. I: “On the importance of the fine arts to the fame of a

         nation.” Chap.II: “On the cultivation of public taste, and the influence of the arts

         on the morals of a people.” “Engraving.” From An Inquiry into the Requisite

         Cultivation of the State of Arts and Design in England. [1806]

 

Johnston, Kenneth. “The Politics of ‘Tintern Abbey.’” From Romantic Poetry: Recent

         Revisionary Criticism.  Ed. Karl Kroeber and Gene Ruoff .

 

---. “The Romantic Idea-Elegy: The Nature of Politics and the Politics of Nature.” South

        Central Review  9 (1992): 24-43.

 

---.”The Triumphs of Failure: Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads  of 1798.” From The Age of

        William Wordsworth. Eds. Kenneth Johnston and Gene Ruoff.

 

Keach, William. “Romanticism and Language.” From Cambridge Companion to British

        Romanticism. Ed. Stuart Curran.

 

Kroeber, Karl. “Beyond the Imaginable: Wordsworth and Turner.” from The Age of

        William Wordsworth. Eds. Kenneth Johnston and Gene Ruoff.

 

---“Romantic Historicism: The Temporal Sublime.” From Images of Romanticism. Eds.

        Karl Kroeber and William Walling.

 

---. “The Clarity of the Mysterious and the Obscurity of the Familiar: Friedrich and

        Turner.” In Burwick, Frederick and Jürgen Klein. The Romantic Imagination:

        Literature and Art in England and Germany.

 

---. "Experience as History: Shelley's Venice, Turner's Carthage." ELH (41) 3 (Fall 1974):

        321-339.

 

Magnuson, Paul. “The Politics of ‘Frost at Midnight.’” From Romantic Poetry. Eds.

        Kroeber and Ruoff.

 

Mann, Elizabeth. "The Problem of Originality in English Literary Criticism, 1750-1800."

        Philological Quarterly (vol. XVIII) 1939, no. 2: 97-118.

 

McGann, Jerome J. “The Idea of an Indeterminate Text: Blake’s Bible of Hell and Dr.

        Alexander Geddes.” Studies in Romanticism  25 (1986): 303-25.

 

---. “The Text, the Poem, and the Problem of Historical Method.” New Literary History 

        (1981): 269-288.

 

Meisel, Martin. “The Material Sublime: John Martin, Byron, Turner, and the Theater.”

        From Images of Romanticism . Ed. Karl Kroeber and William Walling.

 

Moir, Rev. J. Gleanings; or, Fugitive Pieces. 1775.

 

Monk, Samuel H. The Sublime: A Study of Critical Theories in XVIII Century England.

 

Pointon, Marcia.  “Portrait-Painting as a Business Enterprise in London in the 1780s.” Art

        History 7 (1984): 187-205.

 

Read, Dennis. "The Context of Blake's 'Public Address': Cromek and the Chalcographic

        Society."  Philological Quarterly  60 (1981): 69-86.

 

Reynolds, Sir Joshua. Discourse VII, From Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose. Discourses 1-7 are online.

 

Simpson, David. “Romanticism, Criticism, and Theory.” From Cambridge Companion to

        British Romanticism. Ed. Stuart Curran.

 

---. "Criticism, Politics, and Style in Wordsworth's Poetry." Critical Inquiry (September

        1984): 52-81

 

Smart, Christopher. “Jubilate Agno.” From Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose.

 

Stedman. Laelius and Hortensia: Thoughts on the Nature and Objects of Taste and Genius. [1782]

 

Swingle, L.J. “Wordsworth’s ‘Picture of the Mind.’” From Images of Romanticism . Eds.

         Karl Kroeber and William Walling.

 

Tomkins, Calvin, “Can Art be Taught,” The New Yorker, April 15, 2002.

 

Viscomi, Joseph. “The Evolution of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” [part  I]Huntington Library Quarterly  58: 281-344.

 

---. “The Lessons of Swedenborg; or, The Origin of William Blake’s The Marriage of

         Heaven and Hell.”[part II] From Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion.

         Eds. Thomas Pfau and Robert F. Gleckner.

 

---. "In the Caves of Heaven and Hell: Swedenborg and Printmaking in Blake's Marriage."

         [part III]. From Blake in the Nineties. Eds. Clark and Worrall. London: Macmillan, 1999: 27-60.

 

---. “William Blake, Illuminated Books, and the Concept of Difference.” From Romantic

         Poetry: Recent Revisionary Criticism. Eds. Kroeber and Ruoff.

 

---. “Illuminated Printing,” From Cambridge Companion to Blake. Ed. Eaves.

 

Viscomi’s essays are online at http://sites.unc.edu/viscomi/frontend_page.html

 

Wilton, Andrew. “Art and Genius: Printmaking in Early Nineteenth-Century England.”

         From Fitzwilliam exhibition catalogue, The Print in England.

 

Woodring, Carl.  “What Coleridge Thought of Pictures.” From Images of Romanticism.

         Eds. Kroeber and Walling

 

---. 'The New Sublimity of 'Tintern Abbey'." From The Evidence of the Imagination. Eds.

         Reiman, Jay, Bennett.

 

Wordsworth, William. “Description of the Scenery of the Lakes.” [1809]

 

---. “The Sublime and the Beautiful.” [1811-12]

 

Young, Edward. “Conjectures on Original Composition.”  [1759] From Eighteenth

         Century Poetry and Prose.