6 Dyspeptic Reactions: Thomas Carlyle and the Byronic Temper

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1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Nervous Containments: Recollection and Influence
6. De Quincey Collects Himself 23
7. Mrs. Julian T. Marshall’s Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 47
8. Between Action and Inaction: The “Performance” of the Prima Donna in Eliot ’s Closet Drama 65
9. Nervous ReincarNations: Keats, Scenery, and Mind Cure in Canada during the Post-Confederation Period, with Particular Reference to Archibald Lampman and Related Cases 93
10. A Matter of Balance: Byronic Illness and Victorian Cure
11. Early Romantic Theorists and The Fate of Transgressive Eloquence: John Stuart Mill’s Response to Byron 123
12. Dyspeptic Reactions: Thomas Carlyle and the Byronic Temper 141
13. “Growing Pains”: Representing the Romantic in Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters 163
14. Hesitation and Inheritance: The Case of Sara Coleridge
15. Snuffing Out an Article: Sara Coleridge and the Early Victorian Reception of Keats 189
16. Her Father’s “Remains”: Sara Coleridge’s Edition of Essays on His Own Times 207
17. Opium Addictions and Meta-Physicians: Sara Coleridge’s Editing of Biographia Literaria 229
18. Bibliography 253
19. Contributors 275
20. Index 277