What We Know and What We Thought We Knew. At the beginning of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens insists that we bear in mind that Jacob Marley’s death is a fact. “There is no doubt that Marley was dead,” the narrator tells us. “This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of this story” (39). Any effective tale relies on the ability of its hearer and its teller to distinguish between what is and what merely seems to be: Ebenezer Scrooge must learn this as surely as Hamlet had to learn it. When it comes to assessing the poetry written and published by women in the British Islesduring the Romantic period, it is useful to separate what we know from what we only think we know. For this is not a tale simply about the Romantic literary canon or about the cultural wars that have during recent years attended the interrogation of that canon, at least in the academic world. [download]
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