The Cambridge companion to romanticism and world literature / edited by Emily Sun, Orrin N.C. Wang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sun, Emily, editor.

Wang, Orrin N. C., 1957- editor.

Series:

Cambridge Companions to Literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanticism.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

The archive of Romantic studies is every day expanding far beyond its Anglo-European confines, incorporating an ever-volatile constellation of works that, like World Literature, understands itself not in any monolithically Western sense but instead as a rhizomatic, polycentric expansion of temporalities, histories, and cultures. Here, a diverse cast of expert scholars reflect on how key concepts in Romantic literary and philosophical writings - periodicity, revolution, empire and settler culture, modernity, abolition, and the problem of language - inspire World Literature's conception of its own methodologies and texts. Covering writers ranging from Lord Byron, Immanuel Kant, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Clare to Simon Bolivar, Hérard Dumesle, Hafez, Rabindranath Tagore, and Ocean Vuong, this collection showcases how the fields of Romanticism and World Literature interact in ways that create new horizons for the study of planetary culture.

Contents:

Philology. Philology out of the spirit of romanticism / Christoph König

Translation. Translating romanticism in South Asia : Swahandatwd and hywd in Nirala's poetry / Paresh Chandra

Criticism and methodology. Enough Kant / David L. Clark

Periodicity and periodization. Thomas Percy and the romantic origins of world literature / Eun Kyung Min

Modernity, modernization, westernization. Modernization, westernization and empire : the violence of primitive accumulation / Saree Makdisi

Romanticism and the contemporary. Unworlding in Percy Shelley and Ocean Vuong / Forest Pyle

Revolution and emancipation. Simón Bolívar's messianic shadow and the challenges of romantic revolution / Carlos Abreu Mendoza

Empire and empires. Byron's Ottoman Turkish afterlives : world literature and empire reimagined / Arif Camoglu

Slavery and abolition. Slavery and abolition / Bakary Diaby

Gender and sexuality / an English lamp in a Persian mirror : William Jones and the (homo)erotic poetics of the untranslatable / Humberto Garcia

Aesthetics and aesthetic ideology. aesthetics and aesthetic ideology :Hérard Dumesle, the Haitian Revolution, and world literature / Deborah Elise White

Ecological imaginations. ecological imaginations : John William Lewin, poetic culture, and the birds of New South Wales / Alexis Harley

Genres local and global. romantic historical fiction and the fiction of history : Lee, Kleist, and Pushkin / Katarzyna Bartoszynska

Media, techné, mediations. commonplacing a new romantic archive / Olivia Loksing Moy.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Jun 2026).

ISBN:

9781009402637

1009402633