The Taming of Romanticism : European Literature and the Age of Biedermeier / Virgil Nemoianu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nemoianu, Virgil, author.

Series:

Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature

Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature ; 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biedermeier.

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

European literature.

Romanticism--Europe.

Romanticism.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.

LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

Local Subjects:

Biedermeier.

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

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.

LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

Romanticism--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Looking at a broad spectrum of writers--English, French, German, Italian, Russian and other East Europeans--Virgil Nemoianu offers here a coherent characterization of the period 1815-1848. This he calls the era of the domestication of romanticism. The explosive, visionary core of romanticism is seen to give way--after the defeat of Napoleon--to an expanded and softer version reflecting middle-class values. This later form of romanticism is characterized by moralizing efforts to reform society, a sentimental yearning for the tranquility of home and hearth, and persistent faith in the individual, alongside a new skepticism, shattered ideals, and consequent irony. Expanding the application of the term Biedermeier, which has been useful in describing this period in German literature, Nemoianu provides a new framework for understanding these years in a wider European context.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

1. THE DYNAMICS OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

2. SUPPORT FOR AN ENGLISH BIEDERMEIER

3. FRENCH ROMANTICISM: TWO BEGINNINGS?

4. EASTERN EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM: PATTERNS OF SUBSTITUTION

5. ROMANTIC IRONY AND BIEDERMEIER TRAGICOMEDY

6. THE BIEDERMEIER HISTORICAL NOVEL AND THE DECLINE OF COMPROMISE

AFTERWORD

NOTES

INDEX

Backmatter

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-41827-1

OCLC:

558417657