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Y asmin S olomonescu , John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination reviewed by Stephanie Churms

Y asmin S olomonescu , John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination reviewed by Stephanie Churms Romanticism Yasmin Solomonescu, John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. xi + 226. £55.00 hardback. 9781137426130. In recent years, new work by Judith Thompson, Steve Poole and Michael Scrivener, among others, has elaborated our understanding of John Thelwall's position at the heart of the `dialogic conversation' we understand as Romanticism. Studies of the polymath's life have been energised by the newly established Thelwall society (http://www.johnthelwall.org). Yasmin Solomonescu's John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination is a successful contribution to this expanding body of criticism. Until the arrival of materialist readings, Romanticism was regarded as an idealistic movement. Solomonescu, however, dissolves this rigid dichotomy to present materialist and idealist thought as consisting of a `double helix' (6). The medical lexicon employed by Solomonescu in her book cleverly illustrates the medical `genetics' of Thelwall's work, and her analysis is at its strongest when applied to Thelwall's poetry in these terms. Solomonescu's opening chapter explores Thelwall's juvenilia. His poetic, political and elocutionary work are revealed to have been informed by the medical lectures he attended at Guy's Hospital during his formative years. She frames her reading of Poems Written in Close Confinement and Poems Written Chiefly in Retirement http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Romanticism Edinburgh University Press

Y asmin S olomonescu , John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination reviewed by Stephanie Churms

Churms, Stephanie
Romanticism , Volume 22 (2): 244 – Jul 1, 2016
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Edinburgh University Press
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© Edinburgh University Press 2016
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Reviews; Literary Studies
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1354-991x
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1750-0192
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10.3366/rom.2016.0279
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Romanticism Yasmin Solomonescu, John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. xi + 226. £55.00 hardback. 9781137426130. In recent years, new work by Judith Thompson, Steve Poole and Michael Scrivener, among others, has elaborated our understanding of John Thelwall's position at the heart of the `dialogic conversation' we understand as Romanticism. Studies of the polymath's life have been energised by the newly established Thelwall society (http://www.johnthelwall.org). Yasmin Solomonescu's John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination is a successful contribution to this expanding body of criticism. Until the arrival of materialist readings, Romanticism was regarded as an idealistic movement. Solomonescu, however, dissolves this rigid dichotomy to present materialist and idealist thought as consisting of a `double helix' (6). The medical lexicon employed by Solomonescu in her book cleverly illustrates the medical `genetics' of Thelwall's work, and her analysis is at its strongest when applied to Thelwall's poetry in these terms. Solomonescu's opening chapter explores Thelwall's juvenilia. His poetic, political and elocutionary work are revealed to have been informed by the medical lectures he attended at Guy's Hospital during his formative years. She frames her reading of Poems Written in Close Confinement and Poems Written Chiefly in Retirement

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