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CONTENTS ARTICLES Romanticism and Colonial Natural Histors' At an bewell s William Blake and the World’s Body of Science ceorge n. gilpin 35 Conducting the Vital Fluid; The Politics and Poetics of Mesmerism in the 1790s tim fueford 57 Composting What May not Be “Sad Trash”: A Reconsideration of Mary Shelley’s Use of Paracelsus in Frankenstein STUART PETEREREUND 79 Thoreau, Crystallography, and the Science of the Transparent eric: g. WILSON 99 Romanticism and the Triumph of Life Science; Prospects for Study HER.MIONE DE ALMEIDA I 19 A Printing Devil, a Scottish Mummy, and an Edinburgh Book of the Dead; James Hogg’s Napoleonic Complex karen fang 161 “To be at Once Another and the Same”: Walter Scott and the End(s) of Sympathetic Britishness evan Gottlieb 187 Pests, Parasites, and Positionality; Anna Letitia Barbauld and “The Caterpillar” ALICE G. den otter 209 Ciomposed Composers; Subjectivity in E. T. A. Hoffman’s “Rat Krespel” william kumbier 231 Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction in Coleridge’s Notebooks REI TERADA 257 Kinship, Ceneration and C'ommunity: The Transmission of Political Ideology in Radical Plebeian Print CTilture DAVID WORRALL 283 Necessary Evils: Unitarian Theodicy in “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere” william a. ulmer 327 Burke, Paine, and the Newspapers: An Archaeology of Political Knowledge 1789-93 peter howell 357 “The Child of a Fierce Hour”: Shelley and Napoleon Bonaparte ctan duffy 399 681 682 CONTENTS Joanna Baillie’s Reflections on the Passions: The “Introductory Discourse” and the Properties of Authorship i inoa kriguam 417 Division Below the Surface: Olaudah Equiano’s Iiiterestiiii’ Sanative oouGi.AS anderson 439 Lionel Trilling and the End of Ronianticisni tracy ware: 461 Byron’s Don Jiiati as a Global Allegory eric strand 503 Seeing Things (“As They Are”): Coleridge, Schiller, and the Play of Semblance * sorhie thomas 537 The “Perpetual Exercise of an Interminable Quest”: The Bioj^raphia Literaria and the Kantian Revolution david m. bauech 557 Fluttering on the Grate: Revision in “Frost at Midnight” MATTMEW VANWINKLE 583 “Look in My Face”: The Dramatic Ethics of The Borderers MEEYNDA NUSS 599 “Hauntings from the Infimiity of Love”: Wordsworth and the Illusion of Pastoral john turner 623 I BOOK REVIEWS I Eric G. Wilson’s The Spiritual History of Ice: Rouiatiticisni, Science, and the Inun’ination and Noah Heringman, ed. Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Satural History, reviewed by Cktrl Woodring 13 5 Alan Bewell’s Romanticism and Colonial Disease, reviewed by Seven Goldsmith 139 Alan Richardson’s British Romanticism and the Scietice of the Mitid, reviewed by Neil Vickers 146 Maureen N. McLane’s Romanticism and the Human Scietices: Poetry, Population and the Discourse of the Species, reviewed by Deborah White 150 Saree Makdisi’s ll’illiam Blake and the Impossible History of the tjgos, reviewed by David Wagenknecht 297 Mark C'anuel’s Reli^iion, Toleration, and British ITritinij, lygo—iSjo, reviewed by Regina Hewitt 303 Helen Thomas’ Romanticism and Slave Sarratives: Transatlantic Testimonies, reviewed by Debbie Lee 307 C:ONTENTS 683 C'lillen D’Arcy Wood’s The Shock of the Real: Romaiiticisin and I 'istial Culture, ij6o—tS6o, reviewed by Jacqueline M. Labbe 310 !na Ferris’ The Romantic \ational Tale and the Question of Ireland, reviewed by Julia M. Wright 312 Philip Shaw’s Waterloo and the Romantic lma(>ination, reviewed by Mary A. Favret 479 David Perkins’ Romanticism and Animal Rights, reviewed by Onno C^erleinans 482 Jane Moody’s Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770-1840, reviewed by Jonathan Mulrooney 48 s Paul Elledge’s Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speakinj^ Out, Talkinii^ Back, Actinyi Cp, Bowinc’ Out, reviewed by Andrea Henderson 490 Peter Otto’s Blake’s Critique of Transcendence: Love, Jealousy, and the Sublime in The Four Zoas, reviewed by Keri Davies 492 Paul Hamilton’s Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory, reviewed by James O’Rourke 653 Tilottama Rajan and Arkady Plotnitsky, editors. Idealism ITithout Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture, reviewed by David Simpson 657 Rei Terada’s Teelinq in Theory: Emotion after the “Death of the Subject," reviewed by David Wagenknecht 661 Simon Bainbridge’s British Poetry and the Revolutionar)’ and \apoleonic Wars: Tisions of Conflict, reviewed by Beth Darlington 667 Josephine McDonagh’s Child Murder and the British Culture 1720- tgoo, reviewed by C'hristine L. Krueger 670