Expanding borders : studies in nonfictional romantic prose / edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Virgil Nemoianu in collaboration with Gerald Gillespie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sondrup, Steven P.

Nemoianu, Virgil.

Gillespie, Gerald, 1933-2025.

Series:

Comparative history of literatures in European languages ; v. 18.

Comparative history of literatures in European languages, 0238-0668 ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanticism.

European prose literature--18th century--History and criticism.

European prose literature.

European prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (485 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding Borders surveys a broad range of expository, polemical, and analytical literary forms that came into prominence during the last two decades of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth. They stand in contrast to better-known romantic fiction in that they endeavor to address the world of daily, empirical experience rather than that of more explicitly self-referential, fanciful creation. Among them are genres that have since the nineteenth century come to characterize many aspects of modern life like the periodical or the psychological case study; others flourished and enjoyed wide-spread popularity during the nineteenth century but are much less well-known today like the almanac and the diary. Travel narratives, pamphlets, religious and theological texts, familiar essays, autobiographies, literary-critical and philosophical studies, and discussions of the visual arts and music all had deep historical roots when appropriated by romantic writers but prospered in their hands and assumed distinctive contours indicative of the breadth of romantic thought.SPECIAL OFFER: 30% discount for a complete set order (5 vols.).The Romanticism series in the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages is the result of a remarkable international collaboration. The editorial team coordinated the efforts of over 100 experts from more than two dozen countries to produce five independently conceived, yet interrelated volumes that show not only how Romanticism developed and spread in its principal European homelands and throughout the New World, but also the ways in which the affected literatures in reaction to Romanticism have redefined themselves on into Modernism. A glance at the index of each volume quickly reveals the extraordinary richness of the series' total contents. Romantic Irony sets the

broader experimental parameters of comparison by concentrating on the myriad expressions of "irony" as one of the major impulses in the Romantic philosophical and artistic revolution, and by combining cross-cultural and interdisciplinary studies with special attention also to literatures in less widely diffused language streams. Romantic Drama traces creative innovations that deeply altered the understanding of genre at large, fed popular imagination through vehicles like the opera, and laid the foundations for a modernist theater of the absurd. Romantic Poetry demonstrates deep patterns and a sharing of crucial themes of the revolutionary age which underlie the lyrical expression that flourished in so many languages and environments. Nonfictional Romantic Prose assists us in coping with the vast array of writings from the personal and intimate sphere to modes of public discourse, including Romanticism's own self-commentary in theoretical statements on the arts, society, life, the sciences, and more. Nor are the discursive dimensions of imaginative literature neglected in the closing volume, Romantic Prose Fiction, where the basic Romantic themes and story types (the romance, novel, novella, short story, and other narrative forms) are considered throughout Europe and the New World. This enormous realm is seen not just in terms of Romantic theorizing, but in the light of the impact of Romantic ideas and narration on later generations. As an aid to readers, the introduction to Romantic Prose Fiction explains the relationships among the volumes in the series and carries a listing of their tables of contents in an appendix. No other series exists comparable to these volumes which treat the entirety of Romanticism as a cultural happening across the whole breadth of the "Old" and "New" Worlds and thus render a complex picture of European spiritual

strivings in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, a heritage still very close to our age.

Contents:

NONFICTIONAL ROMANTIC PROSE

A COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF LITERATURES IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

Title page

Coordinating Committee for

LCC page

Table of contents

Preface

I. General Introduction

II. Romantic Theoretical and Critical Writing

Theories of Romanticism

References

Notes

Romantic Disavowals of Romanticism

Hegel and Hegelianism in European Romanticism

The Aesthetics of German Idealism and Its Reception in European Romanticism

Romantic Theories of National Literature and Language

Sir Walter Scott and the Beginnings of Ethnology

III. Expansions in Time

Distorted Echoes

Burke's Conservatism and Its Echoes

IV. Expansions in Space

Romantic Travel Narratives

Romanticism and Nonfictional Prose in Spanish America

V. Expansions of the Self

Allegories of Address

The Romantic Subject in Autobiography

Educating for Women's Future

VI. Generic Expansions

Costumbrismo in Spanish Literature and its European Analogues

The Romantic Pamphlet

Almanacs and Romantic Non-fictional Prose

The Unending Conversation

The Romantic Familiar Essay

VII. Intersections: Scientific and Artistic Discourses in the Romantic Age

Aspects of German Romantic Musical Discourse

Romantic Discourse on the Visual Arts

Literary Sources of Romantic Psychology

Romanticism, the Unconscious, and the Brain

References.

VIII. Intimations of Transcendence

The Myth of the Fallen Angel

Acknowledgments

Sacrality as Aesthetic in the Early Nineteenth Century

IX. Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612160561

9781282160569

1282160567

9789027295651

9027295654