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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, Paul, 1950- author.

Series:

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.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Europe.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 306 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

"Exploring the Romantic period's experiments in individual and national self-consciousness, this essential comparative study of European literature, philosophy and politics makes striking connections and contrasts to reveal identities being re-orientated and disorientated in response to historical change from the French Revolution onwards"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Disorientating Kant. Introduction : sublimity and abjection ; Kleist and the Kant-crisis ; Hölderlin and the philosophers

The uses of abjection. The feminist humanism of Felicia Hemans : the poetics of Records of woman (1828) ; Thomas Moore and the national lyric

Foscolo's literary hypocrisy

Optimism and pessimism. Balzac's comic pessimism ; George Sand's optimism

Romancing the modern. Rilke translates Leopardi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Hamilton, Paul, 1950- Orientation in European Romanticism.

ISBN:

9781009268233

1009268236

OCLC:

1337409700