Jane Moore

Protocol for investment in health gain: Mental health

This Protocol is directed towards Health Authorities, Local Authorities, Community Health Councils, provider units and other organisations with an interest in mental distress and illness. Interventions with proven health gain potential are listed for a range of mental health problems. The main section on health gain is balanced by the following section which collates and clarifies the views of the users of mental health services. The final sections focus upon ways of driving forward a change towards a community service which uses resources as effectively as possible.

Nineteenth-century Irish Anacreontics: the literary relationship of James Clarence Mangan and Thomas Moore

The odes of the ancient Greek poet Anacreon, celebrating wine, women and song, were made newly popular in the nineteenth century through the efforts of Thomas Moore, a writer whose first volume of verse, a loose translation of the Odes of Anacreon, published in 1800, marks him out today as a poet of Romantic sociability par excellence. I argue that the Anacreontic ode popularised by Moore continued to resonate through nineteenth-century Ireland – albeit in a heavily mediated form – in the work of the poets successor, James Clarence Mangan, who picked up the cup in the series of drinking songs he wrote periodically throughout the 1830s and 1840s, the decades during which Mangan sank into alcoholism and emotional estrangement. The easy charm of Moores Anacreontic song mutates in Mangans verse into a more complex, often allusive and fragmented form, a perverse Anacreontics, which corresponds both to the poets psychic trauma (his alcoholism and self-alienation) and to a broader cultural and political dislocation experienced by Ireland under British rule. This discomfort is registered in Mangans verse in the playful refusal of a single authorial voice and in the poets tendency both to ventriloquise and to distort influence – not just that of Moore but also of the British Romantics, notably Byron and Coleridge.

Key Concepts in Romantic Literature

Key Concepts in Romantic Literature is an accessible and easy-to-use scholarly guide to the literature, criticism and history of the culturally rich and politically turbulent Romantic era (1789-1832). The book offers a comprehensive and critically up-to-date account of the fascinating poetry, novels and drama which characterized the Romantic period alongside an historically-informed account of the important social, political and aesthetic contexts which shaped that body of writing. The epochal poetry of William Wordsworth, William Blake, Mary Robinson, S. T. Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, P. B. Shelley, Lord Byron, John Keats, Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon; the drama of Joanna Baillie and Charles Robert Maturin; the novels of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley; all of these figures and many more are insightfully discussed here, together with clear and helpful accounts of the key contexts of the ages literature (including the French Revolution, slavery, industrialisation, empire and the rise of feminism) as well as accounts of perhaps less familiar aspects of late Georgian culture (such as visionary spirituality, atheism, gambling, fashion, music and sport). This is the broadest guide available to late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British and Irish literature, history and culture.

Mary Wollstonecraft: a revolutionary life. Janet Todd. 2000. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. xxii + 516 pp., ISBN 0 297 84299 4, £20 [Book Review]

The following books are reviewed. The Mothers Legacy to her Vnborn Childe, by Elizabeth Joscelin Jean Ledrew Metcalfe (Ed.), 2000 Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 135 pp., ISBN 0 8020 4694 0, £28.00 Life into Story: the courtship of Elizabeth Wiseman MARY CHAN, 1998 Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. xlvii + 113 pp., ISBN 1 8401 4212 X, £37.50 Lanyer: a Renaissance woman poet SUZANNE WOODS, 1999 Oxford: Oxford University Press. xiv + 198 pp., 0 19512 484 7, £30.00 Kateryn Parr: the making of a queen SUSAN E. JAMES, 1999 Aldershot: Ashgate. 480 pp., ISBN 1 84014 633 4, £47.50 Womens Gothic: from Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley E.J. CLERY, 2000 Tavistock: Northcote House in association with the British Council. 168 pp., ISBN 0 7463 0872 8, £9.99 Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in context MARLENE TROMP, PAMELA K. GILBERT & AERON HAYNIE (Eds), 1999 Albany: State University of New York Press. 302 pp., paperback, US

Wollstonecraft's secrets

19.95 Small Change: women, learning, patriotism, 1750-1810 HARRIET GUEST, 2000 Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 350pp., ISBN 0 226 31052 3, £11.50 Mary Wollstonecraft: a revolutionary life JANET TODD, 2000 London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. xxii + 516 pp., ISBN 0 297 84299 4, £20 Faithful Handmaid: Fanny Burney at the court of King George III HESTER DAVENPORT Gloucester: Sutton Publishing. 240 pp., ISBN 0 7509 1881 0, £25.00 Fanny Burney: a biography CLAIRE HARMAN London: HarperCollins. 430 pp., ISBN 0 0025 5690 1, £19.99 Frances Burney: a literary life JANICE FARRAR THADDEUS Basingstoke: Macmillan Press. 263 pp., ISBN 0 3336 0764 3, £11.99 Their Fair Share: women, power and criticism in the Athenaeum, from Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield, 1870-1920 MARYSA DEMOOR, 2000 London: Ashgate. 176 pp., ISBN 0 7546 0118 8, £42.50

The feminist reader: essays in gender and the politics of literary criticism

Abstract Contemporary feminist scholarship has read theVindication of the Rights of Womanas a paradigm of the anti-eroticism present in all of Wollstonecrafts works, but which is less discernible in her private life and letters. As a result, it is not unusual to find the letters and the life being cited as contradictory departures from the sexual ideology of theVindication. Against received feminist critical opinion, this essay argues that secrecy rather than pleasure in sexual relations that is the target of the texts negative polemic. In other words, I propose that the focus of aVindicationsanti-eroticism is the art of secrecy which fashionable male conduct-book writers encouraged women to practise. In the context of theVindicationsoutrage over the cultural injunction to women to cloak sexual emotion in enigmatic self-reserve, the frankness with which Wollstonecraft later declares her passion in the Letters to Imlay appears less of a contradiction than a consolidation of her theoretical position. Th...