Julie Ellison

Delicate subjects : romanticism, gender, and the ethics of understanding

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Emerson's Romantic Style

Professor Ellison demonstrates that the characteristic difficulties of Emersons prose--its repetitiveness, discontinuity, and tonal peculiarities--are motivated by his use of interpretation to free himself from recurringly intimidating aspects of tradition.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

News, Blues, and Cowper's Busy World

The scholarly standing of newspapers has risen dramatically as cultural studies and studies of print culture have converged. Newspapers represent a communicative economy fundamental to a nation’s understanding of itself and of its relationship to other countries and peoples. Social theory, social history, and literary studies meet at the intersection of Benedict Anderson and the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP).1 As a result, we know that newspapers were an important medium of British culture in the eighteenth century. As we sort out the dimensions of that culture, we need to gauge the relationship of newspapers to other media and genres, including literary ones. What good are newspapers to poets? What good are poets to newspapers? By the late eighteenth century the news could be explicitly described as a catalyst for translating social variety into consumable art. William Cowper (1731–1800) was the earliest and most influential adapter of the newspaper to reflective poetry. Traumatically excluded from his early professional career in the family practice of law and parliamentary administration, he was unusually receptive to metropolitan affairs as refracted through the papers. Cowper therefore helped craft the sensibility that allows us to think about the news as a cultural system. Drawing on standard poetic strategies of the period—fancy, the prospect,