ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses work which he have been doing on the Romantic writers and their responses to historical events; and he want to begins by recapitulating some of that work, which is already available in other formats. He would like to turn instead to Coleridge's poem 'Christabel' which seems to be emblematic of these problems of the shattering of the body and of the difficulty of physical and historical integration which composed a significant part of the experience of the 'Romantic' writers. The author shall not be saying a great deal about 'parts of speech', although he thinks that there are connections there which would bear elaboration; but 'parts of the body' and 'dismemberment and healing' are indeed themes to which he wants to pay attention. The imagery is very close to that of Frankenstein; it concentrates on a body which is no longer informed, held together, by natural means but is instead reconstructed artificially.
