Angela Esterhammer

Principal, Victoria College

Professor, Department of English, University of Toronto

Associate Faculty, Centre for Comparative Literature

Associate Faculty, Department of German

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Articles

• “Legendary Late-Romantic Switzerlands: Baillie, Polidori, Hemans, and Scott.” Romanticism, Rousseau, Switzerland: New Prospects. Ed. Angela Esterhammer, Diane Piccitto, and Patrick Vincent. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming 2015).
• “The Cross-Cultural Reception of Improvised Drama: Tommaso Sgricci and His Multinational Publics.” Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film 42.1 (Summer 2015) (forthcoming).
• “Identity Crises: Celebrity, Anonymity, Doubles, and Frauds in European Romanticism.” The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism. Ed. Paul Hamilton. Oxford: Oxford UP (forthcoming 2015).
• “The 1820s and Beyond.” The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism. Ed. David S. Duff. Oxford: Oxford UP (forthcoming 2014).
• “Media, Improvisation, and Cultural Mobility: The Late-Romantic Information Age.” Perspektiven europäischer Romantik-Forschung heute. Ed. Helmut Hühn and Joachim Schiedermair. Berlin: de Gruyter (forthcoming 2014).
• “The Improvisation of Poetry, 1750-1850: Oral Performance, Print Culture, and the Modern Homer.” The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies. Ed. George E. Lewis and Benjamin Piekut. New York: Oxford UP (forthcoming 2014).
• “Improvisation, Speculation, Risky Business: Fiction and Performance, 1824-1826.” Essays in Romanticism 21.1 (2014): 1-16.
• “’Maga-scenes’: Performing Periodical Literature in the 1820s.” The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope. Ed. Joel R. Faflak and Jason Haslam. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. 31-50.
• “Impersonation in Late-Romantic Urban Performance and Print Culture.” Romantic Cityscapes. Ed. Jens Martin Gurr and Berit Michel. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2013. 155-64.
• “John Galt’s Mediterranean Experience.” The Wordsworth Circle 43 (2012): 113-16.
• “1824: Improvisation, Speculation, and Identity-Construction.” BRANCH (Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History, 1775-1925). Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. 2012. http://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=angela-esterhammer-1824-improvisation-speculation-and-identity-construction
• “Sayings, Doings, and Speculations: Remediating Theodore Hook’s Silver-fork Fiction.” Informal Romanticism. Ed. James Vigus. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2012. 131-43.
• "Agency, Destiny, and National Character: John Galt and Europe." John Galt: Observations and Conjectures on Literature, History, and Society. Ed. Regina Hewitt. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield/Bucknell UP, 2012. 323-44.
• "Die Kunst des stimmigen Wortes. Improvisatoren und ihr Publikum im 19. Jahrhundert." Concordia discors. Ästhetiken der Stimmung zwischen Literaturen, Künsten und Wissenschaften.. Ed. Hans-Georg von Arburg and Sergej Rickenbacher. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012. 23-34.
• "Improvisational Modes." The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature. Ed. Frederick Burwick. Oxford: Wiley/Blackwell, 2012. 652-60.
• "Theodore Hook." The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature. Ed. Frederick Burwick. Oxford: Wiley/Blackwell, 2012. 623-5.
• "John Thelwall's Panoramic Miscellany: The Lecturer as Journalist." John Thelwall: Critical Reassessments. Ed. Yasmin Solomonescu. Series title: Romantic Circles Praxis (September 2011). http://romantic.arhu.umd.edu/praxis/thelwall/index.html
• "Coleridge, Sgricci, and the Shows of London: Improvising in Print and Performance." Dante and Italy in British Romanticism. Ed. Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 143-59.
• "John Galt's Fictional and Performative Worlds." The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism. Ed. Murray Pittock. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. 166-77.
• "Coleridge's 'The Improvisatore': Poetry, Performance, and Remediation." The Wordsworth Circle 40 (2011): 122-8.
• "Spontaneity, Immediacy, and Improvisation in Romantic Poetry." A Companion to Romantic Poetry. Ed. Charles Mahoney. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 321-36.
• "Performing Identities in Byron and Bourdieu." Performing the Self. Ed. Karen Junod and Didier Maillat. Series title: SPELL (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature) 24. Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2010. 21-31.
• "London Periodicals, Scottish Novels, and Italian Fabrications: Andrew of Padua, the Improvisatore Re-membered." Studies in Romanticism 48 (2009): 469-90.
• "The Scandal of Sincerity: Wordsworth, Byron, Landon." Romanticism, Sincerity and Authenticity. Ed. Tim Milnes and Kerry Sinanan. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 101-19.
• “Byron and Cosmopolitanism.” Primerjalna književnost (= Comparative Literature) 32.2 (2009): 113-21.
• “Übertragene Ruinen: Lord Byron in Griechenland und die Elgin Marbles in England.” Übertragene Anfänge: Imperiale Figurationen um 1800. Ed. Tobias Döring, Barbara Vinken, and Günter Zöller. Munich: Fink Verlag, 2010. 131-46.
• “Coleridge in the Newspapers, Periodicals, and Annuals.” The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Ed. Frederick Burwick. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 165-84.
• “Translating the Elgin Marbles: Byron, Hemans, Keats.” The Wordsworth Circle 40 (2009): 29-36. Reprinted in Grasmere 2008: Selected Papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference. Ed. Richard Gravil. Penrith: Humanities Ebooks, 2009. 106-24.
• “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion.” Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, 3rd edn, ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 2: 622-23. [in German]
• “America: A Prophecy.” Co-authored with Sebastian Domsch. Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, 3rd edn, ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 2: 618-19. [in German]
• “Europe: A Prophecy.” Co-authored with Sebastian Domsch. Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, 3rd edn, ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 2: 619-20. [in German]
• “The Book of Urizen.” Co-authored with Sebastian Domsch. Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, 3rd edn, ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 2: 620-21. [in German]
• “Trophies, Triumphs, Tourism, and the Topography of History: Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Its Contexts.” Colloquium Helveticum 39 (2008): 25-42.
• “Musing in Public: The Sociability and Solitude of the Romantic Improvvisatore.” Einsamkeit und Geselligkeit um 1800. Ed. Susanne Schmid. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008. 17-28.
• "The Improvisatrice's Fame: Landon, Staël, and Female Performers in Italy." British and European Romanticisms. Ed. Christoph Bode and Sebastian Domsch. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007. 227-37.
• "Improvisational Aesthetics: Byron, the Shelley Circle, and Tommaso Sgricci." Romanticism on the Net No. 43 (August 2006). http://www.erudit.org/revue/RON/2006/v/n43/013592ar.html
• "The Cosmopolitan Improvvisatore: Spontaneity and Performance in Romantic Poetics." European Romantic Review 16 (2005): 153-65.
• "The Improviser's Disorder: Spontaneity, Sickness, and Social Deviance in Late Romanticism." European Romantic Review 16 (2005): 329-40.
• "Romantic Voices, Romantic Curses: Blake's Tiriel, Hölderlin's Tod des Empedokles, Shelley's Prometheus Unbound." Romantic Voices, Romantic Poetics: Selected Papers from the Regensburg Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism. Ed. Christoph Bode and Katharina Rennhak. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2005. 21-32.
• "Friedrich Hölderlin." (Revised version.) The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. 2nd edn. Ed. Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005. 505-7.
• "Speech Acts." The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. 2nd edn. Ed. Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005. 876-82.
• "Naming and Contingency, and Some Implications for Begriffsgeschichte." Arcadia 39 (2004): 249-56.
• "Continental Literature, Translation, and the Johnson Circle." The Wordsworth Circle 33 (2002): 101-04.
• "'He Who Has Ears to Hear': Hegel's Encyclopedia §459 and the Akroamatic Tradition." Hegel: Zur Sprache. Beiträge zur Geschichte des europäischen Sprachdenkens. Ed. Bettina Lindorfer and Dirk Naguschewski. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2002. 287-99.
• "Nineteenth-Century Modernities in an Age of Cosmopolitanism: Language and Cultural Difference in the Work of the Humboldt Brothers." Other Modernisms in an Age of Globalization. Ed. Djelal Kadir and Dorothea Löbbermann. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2002. 35-45.
• "Introduction." Romantic Poetry. Ed. Angela Esterhammer. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002. vii-ix.
• "The Romantic Ode: History, Language, Performance." Romantic Poetry. Ed. Angela Esterhammer. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002. 143-62.
• "Coleridge: The Critic." The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. Ed. Lucy Newlyn. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. 142-55.
• "Words and Action in Blake's Songs." Blake Journal 6 (2001): 38-47.
• "Coleridge's 'Hymn before Sun-rise' and the Voice Not Heard." Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life. Ed. Nicholas Roe. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001. 224-45.
• "Locationary Acts: Blake's Jerusalem and Hölderlin's Patmos." Placing and Displacing Romanticism. Ed. Peter J. Kitson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. 178-90.
• "The Performative in Romantic Theory and Practice: On the Linguistic Philosophy of Coleridge and Humboldt." Romanticism in Theory. Ed. Lis Møller and Marie-Louise Svane. Aarhus UP, 2001. 58-72.
• "Godwin's Suspicion of Speech Acts." Studies in Romanticism 39 (2000): 553-78.
• "Cognitive Process and Commanding Genius." The Coleridge Bulletin New Series 16 (NS) (Winter 2000): 56-62.
• "Of Promises, Contracts, and Constitutions: Thomas Reid and Jeremy Bentham on Language as Social Action." Romanticism 6.1 (2000): 55-77.
• "Romantic Poetry: A Contested Literature of Theory." Neohelicon 27 (2000), No. 1, 41-49.
• "Susan Ferrier's Allusions: Comedy, Morality, and the Presence of Milton." Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and Their Sisters. Ed. Laura Dabundo. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000. 61-71.
• "Hölderlin and the Inter/Subjective Speech Act." Rereading Romanticism. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik. Ed. Martha B. Helfer. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999. 193-226.
• "'The Duel': Kleist's Scandal of the Speaking Body." European Romantic Review 10 (1999): 1-22.
• "Calling into Existence: The Book of Urizen." Blake in the Nineties. Ed. Steve Clark and David Worrall. London: Macmillan, 1999. 114-32.
• "Implications of 1798." Co-authored with Julia M. Wright. 1798 and Its Implications. Ed. Angela Esterhammer and Julia M. Wright. Special issue of European Romantic Review 10 (1999): 127-36.
• "Blake, Hölderlin, and a Speech-Act Paradigm for the Romantic Period." Comparative Literature Now: Theories and Practice / La Littérature comparée à l'heure actuelle. Théories et réalisations. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek with Milan V. Dimic' and Irene Sywenky. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1999. 343-51.
• "Performative Language and Speech-Act Theory." A Companion to Romanticism. Ed. Duncan Wu. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997. 452-59.
• "Bildung and Landscape: Creative Processes in Hölderlin's 'Griechenland'." Natur, Räume, Landschaften: 2. Internationales Kingstoner Symposium. Ed. Burkhardt Krause and Ulrich Scheck. München: Iudicium, 1996. 113-23.
• Trans., "Cogito and Séparation: Lacan/Levinas," by Hans-Dieter Gondek. Journal of European Psychoanalysis 2 (1995-96): 133-67. Reprinted in Levinas and Lacan: The Missed Encounter. Ed. Sarah Harasym. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998. 22-55.
• "Wilhelm von Humboldt, the Dialogic Situation, and Speech as Act." The Wordsworth Circle 27 (1996): 13-16.
• "From Fiat to 'Thou Shalt Not': Reflections on Genesis, Romanticism, and Language." History of European Ideas 20 (1995): 699-705.
• "Meddling with Authority: Inspiration and Speech Acts in The Reason of Church-Government." Spokesperson Milton: Voices in Contemporary Criticism. Ed. Charles W. Durham and Kristin Pruitt McColgan. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP, 1994. 141-52.
• "Creation, Subjectivity, and Linguistic Structure in Paradise Lost: Milton with Saussure and Benveniste." English Studies in Canada 20 (1994): 267-82.
• "Speech Acts and World-Creation: The Dual Function of the Performative." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 20 (1993): 285-304.
• "Friedrich Hölderlin." The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994: 392-94.
• "Speech Acts and Living Words: On Performative Language in Coleridge's 1798 Poems." The Wordsworth Circle 24 (1993): 79-83.
• "The Constitution of Blake's Innocence and Experience." English Studies in Canada 19 (1993): 151-60.
• "Wordsworth's 'Ode to Duty': Miltonic Influence and Verbal Performance." The Wordsworth Circle 24 (1993): 34-37.
• "'Can't See Life for Illusions': The Problematic Realism of Sinclair Ross." From the Heart of the Heartland: The Fiction of Sinclair Ross. Ed. John Moss. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 1992. 15-23.
• "Chatterton, Thomas." Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s. Ed. Laura Dabundo. New York: Garland, 1992. 83-85.
• "Insanity and Eccentric Genius." Encyclopedia of Romanticism, ed. Dabundo, 287-90.
• "Kant and Theories of German Idealism." Encyclopedia of Romanticism, ed. Dabundo, 302-04.
• "Natural Supernaturalism and Twentieth-Century Critics." Encyclopedia of Romanticism, ed. Dabundo, 406-07.
• "Eposaufhebende Dichtung: Transition and Repetition in Der Tod des Vergil." Proceedings of the Twelfth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association. Utrecht, 1990, II, 598-601.

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