A “Stranger's Near Approach”: Afterlives of Romanticism

Abstract

Afterlives of RomanticismA small shed had been added to my grandmother's house years ago.Some boards were laid across the joists at the top, and between these boards and the roof was a very small garret, never occupied by anything but rats and mice. . . .To this hole I was conveyed as soon as I entered the house.The air was stifling; the darkness total.-Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl IamnotandcannotpretendtobeaRomanticist and so cannot claim to know in any detail the discrete rules of scholarly competence that govern the field, the subdisciplinary bylaws that hold membership in this, as in any, intellectual community minimally conditional on some shared experiences of reading.Nor am I interested, here, in adding an item to the list of texts that all good, self-respecting Romanticists should know.Rather, it is precisely because, whatever my ignorance of the current state of the Romanticist contract, I feel fairly sure that a knowledge of Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is not obligatory in the field that I want to start with it.1 There is the matter of dates to begin with.

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