Miltonic Romanticism

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———. Milton’s Poetry of Choice and Its Romantic Heirs. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1973.

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———. “Romantic Manichaeism: Shelley’s ‘On the Devil, and Devils’ and Byron’s Mythological Dramas.” In The Sun is God: Painting, Literature and Mythology in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. J. B. Bullen. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989: 13–37.

———. Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background, 1760–1830. New York: Oxford University Press, [1981] 1982.

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———. Creature and Creator: Myth-making and English Romanticism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

———. “The Politics of the Epic: Wordsworth, Byron, and the Romantic Redefinition of Heroism.” The Review of Politics, Vol. 69, No. 3, Special Issue on Politics and Literature (Summer, 2007): 375–401.

Clark, Kenneth. The Romantic Rebellion: Romantic versus Classic Art. New York, Evanston, San Francisco, and London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973.

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Cline, C. L. “Byron and Southey: A Suppressed Rejoinder.” Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 3 (Winter, 1954): 27–38.

Cochran, Peter. (Ed.) Byron’s Religions. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.

———. (Ed.) The Gothic Byron. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.

Cooper, Andrew M. “Chains, Pains, and Tentative Gains: The Byronic Prometheus in the Summer of 1816.” Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 27, No. 4, Beginning Byron’s Third Century (Winter, 1988): 529–50.

Craciun, Adriana. Fatal Women of Romanticism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

———. “Romantic Satanism and the Rise of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry.” New Literary History, Vol. 34, No. 4, Multicultural Essays (Autumn, 2003): 699–721.

Crawford, Joseph. Raising Milton’s Ghost: John Milton and the Sublime of Terror in the Early Romantic Period. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011.

Curran, Stuart. “The Siege of Hateful Contraries: Shelley, Mary Shelley, Byron, and Paradise Lost.” In Milton and the Line of Vision. Ed. Joseph Anthony Wittreich, Jr. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1975: 209–30.

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Danziger, Marlies K. “Heroic Villains in Eighteenth-Century Criticism.” Comparative Literature, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Winter, 1959): 35–46.

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Dennis, Ian. “Cain: Lord Byron’s Sincerity.” Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter, 2002): 655–74.

Detre, Jean. A Most Extraordinary Pair: Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975.

Dougherty, Carol. Prometheus. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Dyrendal, Asbjørn, James R. Lewis, and Jesper Aa. Petersen. “Satanic Precursors.” In The Invention of Satanism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016: 27–46.

Eisler, Benita. Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame. New York: Vintage Books, 2000.

Elwin, Malcolm. Lord Byron’s Wife. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1962.

Erdman, David V. “Byron and Revolt in England.” Science & Society, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Summer, 1947): 234–48.

Faxneld, Per. “Romantic and Socialist Satanism.” In Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017: 74–108.

Franklin, Caroline. The Female Romantics: Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism. New York and London: Routledge, 2013.

Garber, Frederick. “Self, Society, Value, and the Romantic Hero.” Comparative Literature, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Autumn, 1967): 321–33.

Garrett, Martin (Ed.). The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Byron. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

——— (Ed.). The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Shelley. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, [1979] 1980.

Goldberg, Leonard S. “ ‘This gloom … which can avail thee nothing’: Cain and Skepticism.” Criticism, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Spring 1999): 207–32.

Goldstein, Stephen L. “Byron’s Cain and the Painites.” Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Fall, 1975): 391–410.

Gordon, Charlotte. Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley. New York: Random House, 2015.

Grebanier, Bernard. The Uninhibited Byron: An Account of His Sexual Confusion. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1970.

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Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, [1979] 1980.

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Hayden, John O. The Romantic Reviewers 1802–1824. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1968.

Haywood, Ian. Romanticism and Caricature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Hebron, Stephen, and Elizabeth C. Denlinger. Shelley’s Ghost: Reshaping the Image of A Literary Family. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2010.

Herold, J. Christopher. (Ed.) The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from His Written and Spoken Words. New York: Columbia University Press, [1955] 1961.

Hirst, Wolf Z. “Byron’s Lapse into Orthodoxy: An Unorthodox Reading of Cain.” Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 29, (1980): 151–72.

Holmes, Richard. The Romantic Poets and Their Circle. London: National Portrait Gallery Publications, 2005.

Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas. The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein. New York, Boston and London: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company, [2006] 2007.

Hoslett, Schuyler Dean. “The Superman in Nietzsche’s Philosophy and in Goethe’s ‘Faust.’Monatshefte für deutschen Unterricht, Vol. 31, No. 6 (Oct., 1939), pp. 294–300.

Huckabay, Calvin. “The Satanist Controversy of the Nineteenth Century.” In Studies in English Renaissance Literature. Ed. Waldo F. McNeir. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1962: 197–210.

Irwin, David. English Neoclassical Art: Studies in Inspiration and Taste. London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1966.

Jones, Emrys. “Byron’s Visions of Judgment.” The Modern Language Review, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Jan., 1981): 1–19.

Jones, Frederick L. (Ed.) The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume I: Shelley in England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964.

———. (Ed.) The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume II: Shelley in Italy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964.

———. “Shelley and Milton.” Studies in Philology, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Jul., 1952): 488–519.

Kitson, Peter J. “Milton: The Romantics and After.” In A Companion to Milton. Ed. Thomas N. Corns. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, [2001] 2003: 463–80.

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Lewis, Linda M. The Promethean Politics of Milton, Blake, and Shelley. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992.

Lovell, Ernest J., Jr. (Ed.) Medwin’s Conversations of Lord Byron. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966.

———. (Ed.) Lady Blessington’s Conversations of Lord Byron. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.

Lutz, Deborah. The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2006.

MacCarthy, Fiona. Byron: Life and Legend. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002.

Marchand, Leslie A. Byron: A Biography. 3 vols. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1957.

———. Byron: A Portrait. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1970.

———. Byron’s Poetry: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, [1965] 1968.

Marples, Morris. Romantics at School. New York: Barnes & Noble Inc., 1967.

Mathews, Chris. “Baleful Eyes: The Archfiend Gets an Entourage.” In Modern Satanism: Anatomy of a Radical Subculture. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2009: 21–40.

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———. Fiery Dust: Byron’s Poetic Development. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

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Meredith, George. “Lucifer in Starlight.” The Lotus Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5 (May, 1910): 28.

Michaels, Leonard. “Byron’s Cain.” PMLA, Vol. 84, No. 1 (Jan., 1969): 71–78.

Miner, Paul. “Blake’s ‘Tyger’ as Miltonic Beast.” Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Winter, 2008): 479–505.

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Pelletier, Robert R. “The Revolt of Islam and Paradise Lost.” Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 14 (Winter, 1965): 7–13.

———. “Unnoticed Parallels between Ahasuerus and Satan.” Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 11 (Winter, 1962): 12–14.

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