The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism
TThe Oxford Handbook to European Romanticism brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The book focuses on the cultural history of the period extending from the French Revolution to the uprisings of 1848. It begins with a series of chapters examining key texts written by major writers in languages including: French; German; Italian; Spanish; Russian; Hungarian; Greek; and Polish amongst others. A second section then explores the naturally inter-disciplinary quality of Romanticism, exemplified by the different discourses with which writers of the time set up an internal, comparative dynamic. These chapters highlight the sense a discourse gives of being written knowledgeably against other pretenders to completeness or comprehensiveness of self-understanding of the time. Discourses typically advance their own claims to resume European culture, collaborating with and at the same time trying to assimilate each other in the process. The main examples featured here are: history; geography; drama; theology; language; philosophy; political theory; the sciences; and the media. Each chapter offers an original and individual interpretation of an inherently comparative world of individual writers and the discursive idioms to which they are historically subject. Together the forty-one chapters provide a comprehensive and provocative overview of European Romanticism.
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The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism
TThe Oxford Handbook to European Romanticism brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The book focuses on the cultural history of the period extending from the French Revolution to the uprisings of 1848. It begins with a series of chapters examining key texts written by major writers in languages including: French; German; Italian; Spanish; Russian; Hungarian; Greek; and Polish amongst others. A second section then explores the naturally inter-disciplinary quality of Romanticism, exemplified by the different discourses with which writers of the time set up an internal, comparative dynamic. These chapters highlight the sense a discourse gives of being written knowledgeably against other pretenders to completeness or comprehensiveness of self-understanding of the time. Discourses typically advance their own claims to resume European culture, collaborating with and at the same time trying to assimilate each other in the process. The main examples featured here are: history; geography; drama; theology; language; philosophy; political theory; the sciences; and the media. Each chapter offers an original and individual interpretation of an inherently comparative world of individual writers and the discursive idioms to which they are historically subject. Together the forty-one chapters provide a comprehensive and provocative overview of European Romanticism.
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The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

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TThe Oxford Handbook to European Romanticism brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The book focuses on the cultural history of the period extending from the French Revolution to the uprisings of 1848. It begins with a series of chapters examining key texts written by major writers in languages including: French; German; Italian; Spanish; Russian; Hungarian; Greek; and Polish amongst others. A second section then explores the naturally inter-disciplinary quality of Romanticism, exemplified by the different discourses with which writers of the time set up an internal, comparative dynamic. These chapters highlight the sense a discourse gives of being written knowledgeably against other pretenders to completeness or comprehensiveness of self-understanding of the time. Discourses typically advance their own claims to resume European culture, collaborating with and at the same time trying to assimilate each other in the process. The main examples featured here are: history; geography; drama; theology; language; philosophy; political theory; the sciences; and the media. Each chapter offers an original and individual interpretation of an inherently comparative world of individual writers and the discursive idioms to which they are historically subject. Together the forty-one chapters provide a comprehensive and provocative overview of European Romanticism.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198831143
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 08/27/2019
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 864
Product dimensions: 9.50(w) x 6.60(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Paul Hamilton, Professor of English, Queen Mary, University of London

Paul Hamilton read English and Philosophy at Glasgow University. He took a D.Phil. at Oxford University, where he was a Junior Research Fellow, and then College Lecturer at Balliol College. Following posts at the University of Nottingham, Exeter College, Oxford, and the University of Southampton, he became Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London in 1996. Hamilton is the author of Metaromanticism (University of Chicago Press, 2003), Coleridge and German Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2007), and Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics (OUP,2013).

Table of Contents

Introduction, Paul Hamilton1. Pre-Romantic French Thought, Caroline Warman2. Literary History and Political Theory in Germaine de Stael's Idea of Europe, Biancamaria Fontana3. Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand: Migrations and Revolution, Jean-Marie Roulin4. Stendhal, Francesco Manzini5. The Novel and the (Il)legibility of History: Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, and Alexandre Dumas, Bradley Stephens6. Romantic Drama: The Mask of Genius, Sotirios Paraschas7. French Romantic Poetry, Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe8. Frenetic Romanticism, Francesco Manzini9. Johann Georg Hamann: Metacritique and Poesis in Counter-Enlightenment, Alexander Regier10. Freedom, Reason, and Art in Idealist and Romantic Philosophy, Andrew Bowie11. Friedrich von Hardenberg (Pseudonym Novalis), WM. Arctander O'Brien12. Jena 1789-1819: Ideas, Poetry, and Politics, Maike Oergel13. Gender and Genre in the Works of German Romantic Women Writers, Astrid Weigert14. The Scepticism of Heinrich von Kleist, Tim Mehigan15. Friedrich Holderlin's Romantic Classicism, Rudiger Gorner16. Goethe the Writer, Angus Nicholls17. Goethe's Figurative Method, Stefan H. Uhlig18. Heidelberg, Dresden, Berlin, Vienna, Dennis F. Mahoney19. Hungarian Romanticism: Reimagining (Literary) History, Richard Aczel20. The Task of Italian Romanticism: Literary Form and Polemical Response, Joseph Luzzi21. Voice, Speaking, Silence in Leopardi's Verse, Michael Caesar22. Leopardi as a Writer of Prose, Franco D'Intino23. 'European Man and Writer': Romanticism, the Classics, and Political Action in the Exemplary Life of Ugo Foscolo, Giuseppe Gazzola24. Manzoni's Persistence, Jonathan White25. Personal Demons and the Spectre of Tradition in Spanish Romantic Drama, Derek Flitter26. Russian Literature between Classicism and Romanticism: Poetry, Feeling, Subjectivity, Andrew Kahn27. Alexander Pushkin as a Romantic, Luba Golburt28. The Geography of Russian Romantic Prose: Bestuzhev, Lermontov, Gogol, and Early Dostoevsky, Katya Hokanson29. Polish Romanticism, Monika Coghen30. Scandinavian Romanticism, Klaus Muller-Wille31. The Romantic Construction of Greece, Roderick Beaton32. Geographies of Historical Discourse, Roberto Dainotto33. Histories of Geography, Paul Stock34. Romantic Political Thought, Douglas Moggach35. Science and the Scientific Disciplines, Benjamin Dawson36. Life and Death in Paris: Medical and Life Sciences in the Romantic Era, Leon Chai37. Religion, Thomas Pfau38. Theatre, Drama, and Vision in the Romantic Age: Stages of the New, Diego Saglia39. Identity Crises: Celebrity, Anonymity, Doubles, and Frauds in European Romanticism, Angela Esterhammer40. Theories of Language, Jan Fellerer41. Europe's Discourse of Britain, Patrick VincentIndex
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