Minor Literature in Late Romanticism

James Najarian is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Ph.D. program at Boston College, USA, and Editor of Religion and the Arts. He is author of Victorian Keats: Manliness, Sexuality, and Desire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

• 1. Introduction.-2. Thinking about the Minor with Charles Lamb.-3. Becoming Thomas Hood.-4. Felicia Hemans, Domesticity, and Emigration.-5. Winthrop Mackworth Praed and the Poetics of Ephemerality.-6. Mary Mitford’s Minor Genre.-7. Conclusion: Elizabeth Bishop as “a minor female Wordsworth”