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This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. The depth of these original perspectives on the literature, art, politics, science, and philosophy of transatlantic nineteenth-century culture will foster future conversations.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Eroica in Its Artistic Context: Willibrord Joseph Mähler's Portrait of Beethoven
John Clubbe
Chapter 2: Thomas Cole and the Wild American Sublime
George H. Gilpin
Chapter 3: "To go down, bound": William Hone and the Materiality of Print Culture
Steven E. Jones
Chapter 4: Dark Humor, Cartoon Strips, and Other Raw Material for Don Juan
Hermione de Almeida
Chapter 5: Prying into the Melon: The Marriage of Private with Public in the Regency Era
Robert L. Patten
Chapter 6: Did Tom Jones Ever Go to Xanadu?: Two Meditations on A Life and Practice as a Historical Critic
Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace
Chapter 7: American Wilderness
Carl Woodring
Chapter 8: Exhibition of Five English Romantic Poets in a Museum in Florence
Carol Kyros Walker
Chapter 9: George Romney's Shipwrecks
Morton D. Paley
Chapter 10: "My distressful pilgrimage": Byron's marginalia to Foscolo's Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis
Jonathan Gross
Chapter 11: Between Two Fires: Henry Adams and the Temperature of History
Martin Meisel
Chapter 12: Afterwords for Carl Woodring
Nina Auerbach, G. Thomas Tanselle, William Theodore de Bary, Donald H. Reiman, Anne K. Mellor, Carl Dawson, Marsha Manns, Regina Hewitt, Robert M. Ryan, William Carl Gilpin
Chapter 13: Almost Nobody: A Chronicle
Carl Woodring
Selected Bibliography: Carl R. Woodring
Ben P. Robertson
Contributors
About the author
Edited by Hermione de Almeida - Contributions by Nina Auerbach; John Clubbe; Carl Dawson; William Theodore de Bary; George H. Gilpin; William Carl Gilpin; Jonathan Gross; Regina Hewitt; Steven E. Jones; Marsha Manns; Martin Meisel; Anne K. Mellor; Morton
