Judith W. Page

Imperfect Sympathies: Jews and Judaism in British Romantic Literature and Culture (Palgrave, 2004)

Research and Publications


Books

Articles and Chapters of Books

  • “Edmund Kean,” 5000-word essay accepted for the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romanticism (drama), ed. Frederick Burwick (2010)
  • “Grace Aguilar’s Victorian Romanticism: Records of Israel (1844)” (accepted for a volume on Romanticism and “The Jewish Question,” to be published by Ashgate)
  • “Susanna Blamire’s Ecological Imagination: Stoklewath; or the Cumbrian Village” (under consideration)
  • “The Garden in Mansfield Park; or, Fanny Price’s Potted Plants” (forthcoming in ImageText)
  • "Reforming Honeysuckles: Hannah More's Coelebs in Search of a Wife and the Politics of Women's Gardens," The Keats-Shelley Journal (2006): 11-36.
  • “Anglo-Jewish Identity and the Politics of Cultivation in Hazlitt, Aguilar, and Disraeli,” in The Jews and British Romanticism: Politics, Religion, Culture, Palgrave, (2005), 149-64.
  • “Gender and Domesticity,” Chapter 12 of The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth, ed. Stephen Gill (2003), 125-41.
  • “Hath not a Jew eyes?”: Edmund Kean and the Sympathetic Shylock,” (Spring 2003) The Wordsworth Circle. 216-19.
  • “Neatly-Penned Memorials: Dora Wordsworth’s Journal of 1828 and the Community of Authorship,” A/B: Autobiography Studies 17 (Summer 2002), 65-80.
  • “Hyman Hurwitz’s Hebrew Tales (1826): Restoring the Talmudic Garden,” British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature, ed. Sheila A. Spector, New York: Palgrave (2002), 197-213.
  • “Maria Edgeworth’s Harrington: From Shylock to Shadowy Peddlers,” The Wordsworth Circle 32 (Winter 2001), 9-13.
  • “’Nor yet redeemed from scorn: Wordsworth and the Jews,’” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 99 (October 2000), 537-54.
  • “Jerusalem and Jewish Memory: Judith Montefiore’s Private Journal,” Victorian Literature and Culture 27 (1999), 125-41.
  • “Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” Women’s Studies Encyclopedia, vol. 3, Greenwood Press (1992), 458-60.
  • “‘Judge her gently’: Passion and Rebellion in Wordsworth’s ‘Laodamia,’” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 33 (Spring 1991), 24-39.
  • “Images of Women in British Romantic Literature,” Women’s Studies Encyclopedia, vol. 2, 297-99, Greenwood Press (1991), 297-99.
  • “William Wordsworth,” in English Romantic Poets, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale Publishing Company (1990), 304-345. Reprinted in the Concise Dictionary of Literary Biography.
  • “Shelley’s Adonais as Pastoral Elegy,” in Approaches to Teaching Shelley’s Poetry MLA (1990), 100-102.
  • “‘A History / Homely and rude:’” Genre and Style in Wordsworth’s Michael,” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 29 (Autumn 1989), 621-36.
  • “‘The weight of too much liberty:’ Genre and Gender in Wordsworth’s Calais Sonnets,” Criticism 30 (Spring 1988), 189-203.
  • “The Preface to Lyrical Ballads in Relation to the Poems,” in Approaches to Teaching Wordsworth’s Poetry, MLA (1986), 75-78.
  • “Wordsworth and the Psychology of Meter," Papers on Language & Literature 21(Summer 1985), 275-94.
  • “Style and Rhetorical Intention in Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads,” Philological Quarterly 62 (Summer l983), 293-313.
  • “The Garland Facsimiles of the Poetry of James Montgomery,” Blake Quarterly (Summer l981), 28-35.

Reviews

  • Dorothy Wordsworth, A Longman Cultural Edition, ed. Susan M. Levin. New York: Pearson Education, 2009, Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (solicited)
  • Valman, Nadia. The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. (Women’s Writing) 
  • Kevin Gilmartin's Writing against Revolution: Literary Conservatism in Britain, 1790-1832. Cambridge University Press, 2007 (forthcoming in Modern Philology)
  • Eitan Bar-Yosef's The Holy Land in English Culture, 1799-1917: Palestine and the Question of Orientalism. Oxford University Press, 2005 (forthcoming in Review of English Studies)
  • Alyson Pendelbury's Portraying 'the Jew' in First World War Britain. Portland, Oregon: Vallentine Mitchel, 2006 (forthcoming in the AJS Review)
  • Daniel P. Watkins’ Sexual Power in British Romantic Poetry, Modern Philology (February 1999) 390-92.
  • Laura E. Skandera-Trombley’s Mark Twain in the Company of Women, Women’s Historical Review (1996), 303-4.
  • David Collings’s Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics of Cultural Dismemberment, Journal of English and Germanic Philology (1996), 257-59.
  • Don H. Bialostosky’s Wordsworth, Dialogics, and the Practice of Criticism, Modern Philology (August 1994), 110-14.
  • Peter J. Manning’s Reading Romantics: Text and Context, The Wordsworth Circle (Autumn 1993), 215-16.
  • Marlon B. Ross’s The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women’s Poetry, Modern Philology (November 1991), 292-97.
  • Don H. Bialostosky’s Making Tales: The Poetics of Wordsworth’s Narrative Experiments, Modern Philology (February l987), 326-29.
  • T.V.F. Brogan’s English Versification, Blake Quarterly (Fall l982), 125-26.
  • Charles Sherry’s Wordsworth’s Poetry of the Imagination, Modern Philology (November 1982), 205-8.

Selected Presentations

  • “Monsters in the Garden: Dorothy Wordsworth and the Italian Style,”The Romantics in Italy: Dante, Italian Culture, and Romantic Literature,” Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation, Florence, Italy, January, 23 - 30, 2010
  • “Writing from Chawton: Austen and the Garden in Mansfield Park,” New Directions in Austen Studies, Chawton House, UK, July 9-11, 2009.
  • Invited Lecture, “Shylock’s Turquoise Ring: Jane Austen, Romanticism, and Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice,” Higgins School of Humanities, Clark University, Worcester, MA, Fall 2009
  • Co-organizer, Panel for Association for Jewish Studies, “Jewish Wanderings, Wandering Jews,” Washington, D.C., December 2008.
  • “Grace Aguilar’s Victorian Romanticism,”special session on “New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Literature," "North American Society for the Study of Romanticism,” Toronto, August 2008
  • Invited Lecture, Gardening in Grasmere: Dorothy Wordsworth at Dove Cottage, 1799-1802,” English Research Seminar Series at University of Southampton UK, February 2008
  • "Dorothy Wordsworth's 'gratitude to insensate things': Gardening in The Grasmere Journals," International Conference on Romanticism, Baltimore, October 2007
  • Moderator and opening remarks, Symposium on Erich Auerbach's Mimesis, UF, October 2007
  • Invited lecture, "The Garden in Mansfield Park," JASNA, Jacksonville, FL, November 2007
  • Invited Lecture. "Reinventing Shylock: Romanticism and the Representation of Shakespeare's Jew." Center for Judaic Studies, University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY. April 2006.
  • Inivited, Plenary Lecture, University of London, conference on Romanticism and Judaism, February 2006
  • “Jewish Spectacle: Culture and Cultivation in Early Nineteenth Century Britain” Association for Jewish Studies, December 2004, Chicago, IL
  • “Jewish Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Cultivation in Hazlitt and Disraeli,” NASSR, September 2004, Boulder, CO
  • “Women and Landscape: Improvements and Prospects from Anne Finch to Anna Seward and Jane Austen,” Conference on Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830, Chawton House, UK, July 14-15, 2004
  • “Milk and Honey: Grace Aguilar and the Politics of Cultivation,” 18th and 19th Century British Women Writers Conference, Athens, Georgia, March 2004
  • “Jewish Scholars and Romantic Texts,” Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, December 23, 2003
  • Respondent, “Cities of Women: The Filmic Portrayal of Urban Female Struggles,” University of Florida, December 6, 2003
  • “What Happened at Drury Lane on January 26, 1814?” invited lecture, Millsaps College Friday Forum, November 14, 2003
  • “Reinventing Shylock: Romanticism and the Representation of Shakespeare’s Jew,” invited talk, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UK, February 2003 and to the Romantic Realignments, University College, Oxford University, April 2003
  • “Edmund Kean, Theatrical Performance, and the Innovation of a Sympathetic Shylock,” Keats-Shelley Association panel, MLA, NYC, December 2002
  • “Jews, Otherness, and Sympathy in Maria Edgeworth’s Harrington” (1817), MLA, NYC, December 2002
  • “Reinventing Shylock: Romanticism and the Representation of Shakespeare’s Jews,” invited lecture, Fall Lecture Series, Center for Jewish Studies, University of Florida, October 2002
  • “Imagining Jerusalem: Judith Montefiore’s Private Journal and Romanticism,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, August 2001
  • “The Jewish Presence in Wordsworth,” MLA panel, “The Jewish Presence—or Absence in Romanticism,” Washington, December 2000
  • “From Shylock to Shadowy Peddlers,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, Yale Center for British Art,” New Haven, April 6-9, 2000
  • “The Jew in the Gothic: Maria Edgeworth’s Harrington,” American Conference on Romanticism, University of Georgia, January 1998
  • “Travel Writing as Spiritual Pilgrimage: Judith Montefiore in Jerusalem (1827),” Associated Colleges of the South Women’s Studies Conference, Millsaps College, October 1997
  • “Expanding the Wordsworth Circle: Dora Wordsworth and Her Literary Mothers,” British Association of Romanticism, Univ. of Leeds, England, July 1997.
  • “‘A Thousand Patches’: Dora Wordsworth’s Journal of 1828 and the Community of Authorship,” 18th and 19th Century British Women Writers, Annual Conference, U.C. Davis, March 1997
  • “Dora Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, and a Jewish Family in the Rhineland, 1828,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Boston, November 1996
  • “Feminism, Faculty, and Academic Politics,” Associated Colleges of the South, Women’s Studies Conference, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, November 1995
  • “Dora Wordsworth’s Travel Writing,” British Comparative Literature Association, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 1995
  • Session Moderator, “Political Dimensions of Reading in the American Academy,” Southern Humanities Conference, Jackson, MS, February 1995.
  • Session Moderator, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Annual Meeting, Duke University, November 1994
  • “Dora Wordsworth and the Legacy of ‘Tintern Abbey,’” MLA, Toronto, December 1993
  • “Wordsworth from Romantic to Victorian: The Case of ‘The Egyptian Maid,’” MLA, Romantics Division, Toronto, December 1993
  • “Genre and Gender in Romantic Writing,” response paper, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, University of Western Ontario, August, 1993
  • “European Images of Africans: Wordsworth and Benoist,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, New Orleans, April 1992.
  • “Dora Wordsworth at Tintern Abbey,” Mississippi Philological Association, February 1992
  • “Wordsworth’s White-Robed Negro: Race and Gender in 1802,” MLA, Chicago, December 1990
  • “Passion and Rebellion in ‘Laodamia,’” Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, England, August 1990
  • “The Feminine Sublime in Wordsworth’s Prelude of 1799,” ASECS National Convention, New Orleans, April 1989
  • “‘Slaves of Feeling:’ Language and Sexuality in Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” ASECS National Convention, Knoxville, April 1988
  • “Calais, August 1802: Wordsworth’s Political Sonnets and the Rhetoric of Freedom,” Philological Association of the Carolinas, March 1986