Revolutionary romanticism : a drunken boat anthology / edited by Max Blechman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Blechman, Max.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanticism.

Civilization, Modern.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : City Lights Books, [1999]

Summary:

Revolutionary Romanticism draws on almost two centuries of intertwined traditions of cultural and political subversion. In this rich collection of writings by artists, scholars, and revolutionaries, the transgressions of the past are recaptured and transvalued for the benefit of the struggles of today and tomorrow.

Along the way, new light is shed on the radical sensibilities of Novalis, Friedrich Holderlin, and Friedrich Schlegel and the profoundly oppositional poetics of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Lord Byron, and William Blake. The social romanticism of Jules Michelet is acclaimed for its visionary, quasireligious breadth. The Paris Commune is figured by Karl Marx, Jules Valles, and Arthur Rimbaud. All-but-forgotten episodes of German expressionism and anarchism are recalled.The romantic outlook of Walter Benjamin and Herbert Marcuse is relocated in their absolute negation of the social order. Surrealism, "the prehensile tail of romanticism, " is followed to Haiti where it catalyzes revolt. And, at the end of the twentieth century, there's Guy Debord and the Situationist International, the passionate detournement of the romantic project.

Contents:

The Revolutionary Dream of Early German Romanticism / Max Blechman 1

On the Subject of Romantic Women / Annie Le Brun 35

William Blake: Revolutionary Romantic / Peter Marshall 39

Revolting Language: British Romantics in an Age of Revolution / Maurice Hindle 65

Romanticism and Revolution: The Vision of Jules Michelet / Arthur Mitzman 83

Ruins and Foundation Stones: The Paris Commune and the Destruction of the Vendome Column / Christopher Winks 101

William Morris: The Politics of Romance / Miguel Abensour 125

The Mountain of Truth / Martin Green 163

Erich Muhsam: In Defense of Literary High Treason / Christopher Winks 179

The Artist in the Future State / Erich Muhsam 185

Surrealism and Romanticism / Marie-Dominique Massoni 193

Under the Star of Romanticism: Walter Benjamin and Herbert Marcuse / Michael Lowy 197

An Episode in a Fragmentary History: Surrealism and the 1946 Revolution in Haiti / Michael Richardson 215

Debord in the Resounding Cataract of Time / Daniel Blanchard 223

Reflections on Revolutionary Romanticism / Max Blechman 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0872863514

OCLC:

40762672