Romantic prose fiction / edited by Gerald Gillespie, Manfred Engel, Bernard Dieterle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gillespie, Gerald, 1933-2025.

Engel, Manfred, 1953-

Dieterle, Bernard.

Series:

Comparative history of literatures in European languages ; v. 23.

A comparative history of literatures in European languages, 0238-0668 ; v. 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

xxi, 733 p.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this volume a team of three dozen international experts presents a fresh picture of literary prose fiction in the Romantic age seen from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. The work treats the appearance of major themes in characteristically Romantic versions, the power of Romantic discourse to reshape imaginative writing, and a series of crucial reactions to the impact of Romanticism on cultural life down to the present, both in Europe and in the New World. Through its combination of chapters on thematic, generic, and discursive features, Romantic Prose Fiction achieves a unique theoretical stance, by considering the opinions of primary Romantics and their successors not as guiding “truths” by which to define the permanent “meaning” of Romanticism, but as data of cultural history that shed important light on an evolving civilization.This volume is part of a book set which can be ordered at a special discount: https://www.benjamins.com/series/chlel/chlel.special_offer.romanticism.pdf

Contents:

Prelim pages

Preface

Introduction

Part I. Characteristic themes

The French Revolution and prose fiction: Allegorization of history and its defeat by Romance

Wertherism and the Romantic Weltanschauung

Romanticism and the idealisation of the artist

'Unheard melodies and unseen pictures': The sister arts in Romantic fiction

Music and Romantic narration

Nature and landscape between exoticism and national areas of imagination

Mountain landscapes and the aesthetics of the sublime in Romantic narration

The 'wanderer' in Romantic prose fiction

Night-sides of existence: Madness, dream, etc.

Doubling, doubles, duplicity, bipolarity

Images of childhood in Romantic children's literature

Artificial life and Romantic brides

Romantic gender and sexuality

Part II. Paradigms of Romantic fiction

A. Generic types and representative texts

The Gothic novel as a Romantic narrative genre

Variants of the Romantic 'Bildungsroman' (with a short note on the 'artist novel')

Historical novel and historical Romance

The fairy-tale, the fantastic tale

The detective story and novel

Récit, story, tale, novella

The literary idyll in Germany, England, and Scandinavia 1770-1848

B. Modes of discourse and narrative structures

Address, relation, community: Boundaries and boundarycrossing in Romantic narration

Torn halves: Romantic narrative fiction between homophony and polyphony

The fragment as structuring force

Mirroring, abymization, potentiation (involution)

Romantic novel and verse Romance, 1750-1850: Is there a Romance continuum

Myth in Romantic prose fiction

From historical narrative to fiction and back: A dialectical game

Romantic prose fiction and the shaping of social discourse in Spanish America

Part III. Contributions of Romanticism to 19th and 20th century writing and thought

Narrative maneuvres in the 'periphery' the Spanish and Latin American novel during Romanticism

Romantic thought and style in 19th century Realism and Naturalism

Romantic legacies in fin-de-siècle and early 20th century fiction

Framing C.J.L. Almqvist: The narrative frame of Törnrosens bok and Romantic irony

Romanticism, occultism and the fantastic genre in Spain and Latin America

Romantic prose fiction in modern Japan: Finding an expression against the grain

Ludic prose from Laurence Sterne to Carlos Fuentes

Rewrites and remakes: Screen adaptations of Romantic works

Conclusion

Appendix (Table of Contents, vols. 1-4)

Index of Names in vol. 5

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612152306

9781282152304

1282152300

9789027291646

9027291640

OCLC:

237767467