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AB -  nineteent h -c e n t u ry l it e r at u r e all shaped by the physiological remembering whose importance to modern nostalgia Austin's study demonstrates as it makes a convincing case for the reassessment of an aesthetic grounded in corporeal experience. Anne DeWitt Yale University H e at h e r G l e n a n d Pa u l H a m i l t o n , eds., Repossessing the Romantic Past. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. x + 254. $90. Repossessing the Romantic Past is a "book written in honour of Marilyn Butler," doyenne of Romantic studies (p. 1). This volume, not quite a festschrift, rather offers a series of essays simultaneously inspired by Butler's work and engaging with it by a highly distinguished roster of contributors from the UK and North America. Paul Hamilton, in his introduction to the book, declares that it "co-opts and re-orchestrates the methods Butler inherited and experienced in her own career: impressionism, formalism, Oxford bibliography, Leavisite moralism, feminism, new historicism of the European and American varieties, post-colonialism" (pp. 2­3). The collection registers "the force, the subtlety, and the seriousness of [Butler's] interventions 
TI - untitled
JF - Nineteenth-Century Literature
DO - 10.1525/ncl.2008.62.4.534
DA - 2008-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-california-press/untitled-hfKUdJasPZ
SP - 534
VL - 62
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -