xiii, 208 pages ; 24 cm

"The volume is organized into three sections: Language and Romantic Discourse Systems; Women Writers and Romantic Constructions of Power; and Varieties of Revisionist Discourse in Romanticism. Each section features individual essays providing critical re-readings of nine Romantic texts and four Romantic topoi. Whether writing on Charlotte Smith's The Old Manor House or Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey, on rescue operas or criminal drama, the contributors, who include Marjean Purinton, Kari Lokke, Rodney Farnsworth, and Jeffrey Cass, expand our understanding of Romantic modes of argumentation."--BOOK JACKET

Includes bibliographical references and index

The materiality of Shakespearean form / Douglas Bruster -- Shakespeare, geography, and the work of genre on the early modern stage / Jean E. Howard -- "I would I were at home" : representations of dwelling places and havens in Cymbeline / Heather Dubrow -- Storm versus story : form and affective power in Shakespeare's romances / Christopher Cobb -- Crossing from scaffold to stage : execution processions and generic conventions in The comedy of errors and Measure for measure / Marissa Greenberg -- Partial views : literary allusion, teleological form, and contingent readings in Hamlet / Nicholas Moschovakis -- Formalism and the problem of history : sonnets, sequence, and the relativity of linear time / R.L. Kesler -- Teaching Shakespeare and the uses of historical formalism / Mary Janell Metzger

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