Lessons of Romanticism : a critical companion / edited by Thomas Pfau and Robert F. Gleckner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pfau, Thomas, 1960-

Gleckner, Robert F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

vii, 475 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1998.

Summary:

Moving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially poetic development, Lessons of Romanticism strives to strengthen a critical awareness of the genres, historical institutions, and material practices that comprised the culture of the period. This anthology -- in recasting Romanticism in its broader cultural context -- ranges across literary studies, art history, musicology, and political science and combines a variety of critical approaches, including gender studies, Lacanian analysis, and post-colonial studies.

With over twenty essays on such diverse topics as the aesthetic and pedagogical purposes of art exhibits in London, the materiality of late Romantic salon culture, the extracanonical status of Jane Austen and Fanny Burney, and Romantic imagery in Beethoven's music and letters, Lessons of Romanticism reveals the practices that were at the heart of European Romantic life. Focusing on the six decades from 1780 to 1832, this collection is arranged thematically around gender and genre, literacy, marginalization, canonmaking, and nationalist ideology. As Americanists join with specialists in German culture, as Austen is explored beside Beethoven, and as discussions on newly recovered women's writings follow fresh discoveries in long-canonized texts, these interdisciplinary essays not only reflect the broad reach of contemporary scholarship but also point to the long-neglected intertextual and intercultural dynamics in the various and changing faces of Romanticism itself.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0822320770

0822320916

OCLC:

37560777