In the early 1800s, Rossini's operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad
arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp …

Eighteenth-century British culture was transfixed by the threat of contagion, believing that
everyday elements of the surrounding world could transmit deadly maladies from one body …

Charts Scottish Romanticism's significant contribution to the making of collective memory in
the transatlantic worldOffers an in-depth examination of Scottish Romantic literary ideas on …

It now seems a foregone conclusion that Wordsworth's “Tintern Abbey” is about the power of
memory. However, this essay recovers a hidden language of memory in the poem—the …

ABSTRACT Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine published a famous demolition of John
Keats's poetry in August 1818. The same issue also announced its hostility to John Ferriar's …

This dissertation presents an untold story about the resurgence of medieval memory arts
throughout the nineteenth century. Beginning in the Romantic era, I examine how these new …

This essay contends that the canonical account of the influence Keats's medical training had
on his poetic activity is lacking, since it fails to consider how empiricism, as a central tenet of …

This thesis examines the concept of nostalgia as depicted in visual and literary
representations of London published in the early nineteenth century. It aims to expand our …

British Romanticism and the American gothic are often treated as separate literary entities,
the former focusing on the events of real life and the latter toward the surreal or supernatural …