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The romantic performative : language and action in British and German romanticism / Angela Esterhammer.
LIBRA PR457 .E88 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Esterhammer, Angela.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- Great Britain.
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- German literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- German literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Comparative literature--English and German.
- Comparative literature.
- Comparative literature--German and English.
- Performative (Philosophy).
- Speech acts (Linguistics).
- Romanticism--Germany.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 357 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- This book develops a new context and methodology for reading Romantic literature by exploring philosophies of language from the period 1785-1835. It explores the moral, political, and legal philosophy of Reid, Bentham, Kant and the German Idealists, Humboldt, and Coleridge, and literary texts by Coleridge, Godwin, Hö lderlin, and Kleist.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-349) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804739145
- OCLC:
- 44509362
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