Announcement of Special Journal Issue

Improvisation and Hybrid Genres in British Romantic Literature

The European Legacy, Volume 24, 2019 (Issue 3-4)

Currently available as individual articles on the Taylor and Franciswebsite

It is anticipated that the print journal will be published in May, 2019

Guest Editor, Michael J. Neth

The British Romantic poets’ well-known penchant for improvising upon and hybridizing received genres is revisited in the nine original essays brought together in this special issue.  The subjects of the essays include works by Byron, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Southey, José Maria Blanco White, Mary Robinson, and the emerging form of the conversation as a distinct genre during the Romantic era.  There are also four essays devoted to the poetry of P.B. Shelley.

The issue was dedicated to Michael O'Neill in recognition of his many contributions to the field.

                                                             Contents

MichaelJ. Neth, “Improvisation and Hybrid Genres in British Romantic Literature:Introduction” (Includes a dedication of this special issue to Michael O’Neill)

BernardBeatty, “Improvisation and Hybrid Genres: Reading Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”

StephenBehrendt, “This is Not an Improvisation: Letitia Landon and the Slipperiness ofTaxonomy”

BenjaminColbert, “From Domus to Polis: Hybrid Identities in Southey’s Letters from England (1807) and BlancoWhite’s Letters from Spain (1822)

RichardCronin, “Rattling on Exactly as They Talk: Romantic Conversations”

NoraCrook, “Shelley’s Jingling Food for Oblivion: Hybridizing High and Low Stylesand Forms”

NancyMoore Goslee, “Shelley’s Oppositional Songs”

JerroldE. Hogle, “The Gothic-Romantic Hybridity in Mary Robinson’s Lyrical Tales”

StevenE. Jones, “Shelley’s ‘Letter to Maria Gisborne’ as Workshop Poetry”

MichaelJ. Neth, “‘This Remarkable Piece of Antiquity’: Epic Conventions in Shelley’s Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant”