"Shun-liang Chao and John Michael Corrigan, eds., Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts, New York: Routledge, 2019. 360 pp.£120. ISBN: 978-0-367-07672-6."

"Shun-liang Chao and John Michael Corrigan, eds., Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts, New York: Routledge, 2019. 360 pp.£120. ISBN: 978-0-367-07672-6."

"Romanticism first emerged as an artistic and literary movement more than two hundred years ago, but its afterlife transcends not only different periods of time, but the boundary between high art and popular culture. In Red Dragon (2002), one of the films that feature Anthony Hopkins' iconic portrayals of the psychiatrist and cannibalistic murderer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the serial killer played by Ralph Fiennes attempts to invoke a sense of awe in his victim by revealing a full-scale tattoo on his back that emulates William Blake's watercolour painting, The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun. In an episode of the long-running television series The Mentalist, mysterious serial killer ""Red John"" whispers the opening lines of Blake's famed poem, ""The Tyger,"" perplexing and somehow fascinating the protagonist Patrick Jane, a Sherlock-Holmes-like consultant to the California Bureau of Investigation who is in pursuit of him. More recently, viewers of the British television series The Frankenstein Chronicles follow inspector John Marlott (portrayed by Sean Bean) as he encounters historical figures related to Romanticism such as Blake, Mary Shelley, Ada Lovelace, and even Charles Dickens, while solving a series of child murders clearly inspired by Shelley's Frankenstein."