Orientation in European Romanticism : the art of falling upwards / Paul Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, Paul, 1950- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism.

Cambridge studies in Romanticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Influence.

Kant, Immanuel.

Romanticism--Europe.

Romanticism.

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

European literature.

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

Philosophy, European--History.

Philosophy, European.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Exploring the experiments in individual and national self-consciousness conducted during the Romantic period, this essential comparative study of European literature, philosophy and politics makes original and often surprising connections and contrasts to reveal how personal and social identities were re-orientated and disorientated from the French Revolution onwards. Reviving a contested moment in the history of aesthetic theory, this study shows how the growing awareness of irresolution in Kant's third Kritik allowed Romantic writers to put the aesthetic to radical uses not envisaged by its parent philosophy. It also recounts how they would go on to force philosophy to revise received notions of authority, empowering women and subordinated ethnic groups to re-orientate existing hierarchies. The sheer range and variety of writers covered is testament both to the breadth of writing that Kant's philosophy so rashly legitimated and to the wider importance of philosophy to the understanding of Romantic literature.

Contents:

Introduction: Sublimity and abjection

Kleist and the Kant-crisis

Hölderlin and the philosophers

The feminist humanism of Felicia Hemans : the poetics of Records of woman (1828)

Thomas Moore and the national lyric

Ugo Foscolo's literary hypocrisy

Balzac's comic pessimism

George Sand's optimism

Retrospect : Rilke translates Leopardi.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2022).

ISBN:

1-009-26824-4

1-009-26826-0

1-009-26822-8