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Romantic Agonies: Human Suffering And The Ethical Sublime, Terryl Givens, Anthony P. Russell
Romantic Agonies: Human Suffering And The Ethical Sublime, Terryl Givens, Anthony P. Russell
English Faculty Publications
This essay examines two poems depicting human anguish in order to explore a current in Romantic thought that implicitly yields some original and compelling insights regarding the problematic relationship between art and suffering. The focus is primarily on Wordsworth's narrative of Margaret's suffering in The Excursion, then more briefly on Shelley's Prometheus Unbound. In both cases Kant's ideas about the sublime provide us with a useful perspective from which to understand the issues these poems raise.
Beryl Gilroy: A Bio-Literary Overview, Daryl Cumber Dance
Beryl Gilroy: A Bio-Literary Overview, Daryl Cumber Dance
English Faculty Publications
In 1992 when I joined the faculty at the University of Richmond, I taught a class in black women's literature to a group of mainly white students who had previously read little or nothing in this body of literature. One young senior--a white male--did a paper comparing the sympathetic portrayal of the white male character in Beryl Gilroy's Stedman and Joanna and Bebe Moore Campbell's Your Blues Ain't Like Mine. His enthusiasm for the rich body of literature to which I had introduced him continued after he graduated, and he often wrote to me about books he was reading …