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Exorbitant Enlightenment : Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German constellations / Alexander Regier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Regier, Alexander, 1976- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blake, William, 1757-1827--Criticism and interpretation.
- Blake, William.
- Hamann, Johann Georg, 1730-1788--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hamann, Johann Georg.
- Blake, William, 1757-1827.
- Hamann, Johann Georg, 1730-1788.
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- German literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Germany--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Germany.
- Germany--Relations--Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Relations--Germany.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 253 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- 'Exorbitant Enlightenment' compels us to see eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and culture in new ways. It reveals a constellation of groundbreaking pre-1790s Anglo-German relations, many of which are so radical so exorbitant that they ask us to fundamentally rethink the ways we grasp literary and intellectual history, especially when it comes to Enlightenment and Romanticism. Regier presents two of the great, untold stories of the eighteenth century. The first story uncovers a forgotten Anglo-German network of thought and writing in Britain between 1700 and 1790. From this Anglo-German context emerges the second story: about a group of idiosyncratic figures and institutions, including the Moravians in 1750s London, Henry Fuseli, and Johann Caspar Lavater, as well as the two most exorbitant figures, William Blake and Johann Georg Hamann.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Troubling Enlightenment
- Unexpected Anglo-German connections in pre-1790s Britain
- Blake and Hamann : Exorbitants
- Crossing channels : Fuseli, Hamann, and Lavater
- Blake and Hamann : poetry as mother tongue and the fight against instrumental reason
- The polyglot Moravians in eighteenth-century London
- A critique of habit : Blake and Hamann on religion, matrimony, and pedagogy
- Hybrid hymns : Anglo-German voices in Blake's Songs
- Every letter has a body : Blake and Hamann on the sexuality of language.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-256199-5
- 0-19-256198-7
- 0-19-187142-7
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