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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (489 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

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 postcolonial 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.Contributors. Steven Bruhm, Miranda J. Burgess, Joel Faflak, David S. Ferris, William Galperin, Regina Hewitt, Jill Heydt-Stevenson, H. J. Jackson, Theresa M. Kelley, Greg Kucich, C. S. Matheson, Adela Pinch, Marc Redfield, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Marlon B. Ross, Maynard Solomon, Richard G. Swartz, Nanora Sweet, Joseph Viscomi, Karen A. Weisman, Susan I. Wolfson

Contents:

Introduction. Reading beyond Redemption: Historicism, Irony, and the Lessons of Romanticism / Thomas Pfau

Romanticism, Bildung, and the Literary Absolute / Marc Redfield

The Inhibitions of Democracy on Romantic Political Thought: Thoreau's Democratic Individualism / Nancy L. Rosenblum

Between Irony and Radicalism: The Other Way of a Romantic Education / Karen A. Weisman

Friendly Instruction: Coleridge and the Discipline of Sociology / Regina Hewitt

Keats and the Aesthetics of Critical Knowledge; or, The Ideology of Studying Romanticism at the Present Time / David S. Ferris

Reading Habits: Scenes of Romantic Miseducation and the Challenge of Eco-Literacy / Marlon B. Ross

Postmodernism, Romanticism, and John Clare / Theresa M. Kelley

The Lessons of Swedenborg; or, The Origin of William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell / Joseph Viscomi

Coleridge's Lessons in Transition: The "Logic" of the "Wildest Odes" / H. J. Jackson

Some Romantic Images in Beethoven / Maynard Solomon

"Lorenzo's" Liverpool and "Corinne's" Coppet: The Italianate Salon and Romantic Education / Nanora Sweet

Liberty, Connection, and Tyranny: The Novels of Jane Austen and the Aesthetic Movement of the Picturesque / Jill Heydt-Stevenson

The Royal Academy and the Annual Exhibition of the Viewing Public / C. S. Matheson

Romantic Psychoanalysis: Keats, Identity, and "(The Fall of) Hyperion" / Joel Faflak

"Their terrors came upon me tenfold": Literacy and Ghosts in John Clare's Autobiography / Richard G. Swartz

A Lesson in Romanticism: Gendering the Soul / Susan J. Wolfson

What Happens When Jane Austen and Frances Burney Enter the Romantic Canon? / William Galperin

Domesticating Gothic: Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, and National Romance / Miranda J. Burgess

Learning What Hurts: Romanticism, Pedagogy, Violence / Adela Pinch

Reforming Byron's Narcissism / Steven Bruhm

"This Horrid Theatre of Human Sufferings": Gendering the Stages of History in Catharine Macaulay and Percy Bysshe Shelley / Greg Kucich.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822320913

0822320916

9780822399100

0822399105

OCLC:

605332959