Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre

Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction Tilottama Rajan and Julia M. Wright; Part I. Genre, History, and the Public Sphere: 1. Godwin and the genre reformers: on necessity and contingency in romantic narrative theory Jon Klancher; 2. Radical print culture in periodical form Kevin Gilmartin; 3. History, trauma, and the limits of the liberal imagination: William Godwin's historical fiction Gary Handwerk; 4. Writing on the border: the national tale, female writing, and the public sphere Ina Ferris; Part II. Genre and Society: 5. Genres from life in Wordsworth's art: Lyrical Ballads 1798 Don Bialostosky; 6. 'A voice in the representation': John Thelwall and the enfranchisement of literature Judith Thompson; 7. 'I am ill-fitted': conflicts of genre in Elisa Fenwick's Secresy Julia M. Wright; 8. Frankenstein as neo-Gothic: from the ghost of the couterfeit to the monster of abjection Jerrold E. Hogle; Part III. Genre, Gender, and the Private Sphere: 9. Autonarration and genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney Tilottama Rajan; 10. 'The science of herself': scenes of female enlightenment Mary Jacobus; 11. The failures of romanticism Jerome McGann; Index.