2025 (35) 69

Issued: 09 / 2025
Publisher: Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta
Language: english / ISSN: 2571-452X
156 pages

Romantic Shock and Surprise

Introduction
David Duff – Laurent Folliot, p. 1-10
Revolutionary Shocks in Translation: Political and Linguistic Change in the Discourse of Radical Translators (1789-1815)
Rosa Mucignat, p. 11-29
“Deep the Raven Wades in Gore:” Death Songs and the Norse-Gothic Spectacle
Sharon Choe, p. 30-43
Radical Reform and the Shock of the Past in Mary Robinson’s Vancenza
Eleanor Franzén, p. 44-57
Romantic Shock and Industrial Catastrophe
Stephanie O’Rourke, p. 58-75
Selling Shock at the Sans Pareil: The Early Shows of Jane and John Scott
Henry James Mason, p. 76-87
“Marmoreality:” Re-Animating the Classical Body in the Romantic Present
Sophie Thomas, p. 88-103
“Proging” the Darkness in John Clare’s “The Mouse’s Nest”
Markus Poetzsch, p. 104-113
Shelley’s Alastor and the Poetics of Inflammatory Shock
Merrilees Roberts, p. 114-126
“Surprised and Not Surprised:” Varieties of Astonishment in Austen’s Novels
Christopher R. Miller, p. 127-143

Reviews

History and Literature in Northern Ireland: Critical Reflections on Their Joint Agency
Mária Kurdi, p. 144-149
Breaking the Limits: Flann O’Brien’s Avant-garde Aesthetics
Einat Adar p. 150-152
Notes on Contributors
p. 153-155