Nature, politics, and the arts : essays on romantic culture in honor of Carl Woodring / edited by Hermione de Almeida.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Almeida, Hermione, 1950- editor.

Woodring, Carl, 1919-2009, honouree.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.

Literature.

Literature--Study and teaching (Secondary).

United States.

Woodring, Carl, 1919-2009.

Woodring, Carl.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xi, 358 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : University of Delaware Press, [2015]

Summary:

This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia University professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring's teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American culture. This is followed by a multiple-authored chapter of postscripts on the aesthetic range of Woodring's intellectual interests across cultural disciplines, his contributions to English studies, and his influence on several generations of scholars. A chapter from Woodring's unpublished autobiography and on his childhood in small-town America concludes the volume with an ironic retrospection on intercultural origins. The topics addressed include portraiture and self-fashioning, landscape art, physiognomy and caricatures, radical print ephemera, illustrated picaresque verse, social and political satire, traditions of the sublime in art and literature, transatlantic influences and aesthetics, chaos theory and the laws of thermodynamics, the Caribbean slave trade, revolutionary history, Napoleonic wars, the politics of multicultural communities, gender and race, marginalia and textual revelations, Native America, historical interchanges in curating museum shows, and contemporary American sculpture and art. Cultural figures of the nineteenth century that are featured in the discussions include Henry Adams, Beethoven, Blake, Byron, Willa Cather, Thomas Cole, Coleridge, James Fenimore Cooper, George Cruikshank, Ugo Foscolo, Washington Irving, Keats, Willibrord Mähler, George Romney, Rowlandson, Shelley, and Wordsworth. Chapter essays, commentaries, and Carl Woodring's unpublished writings function together in Nature, Politics, and the Arts: Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring-with a depth of original perspectives and a multivoiced and intercultural coherence. This book as a whole testifies to Woodring's living and intellectually potent legacy for future students of nineteenth-century transatlantic culture and for twenty-first-century scholarship on literature and art. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Eroica in Its Artistic Context: Willibrord Joseph Mähler's Portrait of Beethoven / John Clubbe Clubbe, John 7

2 Thomas Cole and the Wild American Sublime / George H. Gilpin Gilpin, George H. 37

3 "To go down, bound": William Hone and the Materiality of Print Culture / Steven E. Jones Jones, Steven E. 63

4 Dark Humor, Cartoon Strips, and Other Raw Material for Don Juan / Hermione de Almeida Almeida, Hermione de 83

5 Prying into the Melon: The Marriage of Private with Public in the Regency Era / Robert L. Patten Patten, Robert L. 121

6 Did Tom Jones Ever Go to Xanadu?: Two Meditations on A Life and Practice as a Historical Critic / Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace Wallace, Elizabeth Kowaleski 149

7 American Wilderness / Carl Woodring Woodring, Carl 167

8 Exhibition of Five English Romantic Poets in a Museum in Florence / Carol Kyros Walker Walker, Carol Kyros 181

9 George Romney's Shipwrecks / Morton D. Paley Paley, Morton D. 203

10 "My distressful pilgrimage": Byron's Marginalia to Foscolo's Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis / Jonathan Gross Gross, Jonathan 225

11 Between Two Fires: Henry Adams and the Temperature of History / Martin Meisel Meisel, Martin 249

12 Afterwords for Carl Woodring / Nina Auerback Auerback, Nina, G. Thomas Tanselle Tanselle, G. Thomas, William Theodore de Bary Bary, William Theodore de, Donald H. Reiman Reiman, Donald H., Anne K. Mellor Mellor, Anne K., Carl Dawson Dawson, Carl, Marsha Manns Manns, Marsha, Regina Hewitt Hewitt, Regina, Robert M. Ryan Ryan, Robert M., William Carl Gilpin Gilpin, William Carl 265

13 Almost Nobody: A Chronicle / Carl Woodring Woodring, Carl 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611495409

1611495407

OCLC:

890625344