710010355 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code CHLEL ROM S Hb 15 9789027234612 BB 01 CHLEL 02 0238-0668 Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages ROM S <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The Romanticism series</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">Romanticism series</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">5 vols. set</Subtitle> 01 chlel.roms 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/chlel.roms 01 eng 5 vols. LIT000000 v.2006 DSB 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIT.COMP Comparative literature & literary studies 06 01 The Romanticism series in the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages is the result of a remarkable international collaboration. The editorial team coordinated the efforts of over 100 experts from more than two dozen countries to produce five independently conceived, yet interrelated volumes that show not only how Romanticism developed and spread in its principal European homelands and throughout the New World, but also the ways in which the affected literatures in reaction to Romanticism have redefined themselves on into Modernism. A glance at the index of each volume quickly reveals the extraordinary richness of the series’ total contents. <i>Romantic Irony</i> sets the broader experimental parameters of comparison by concentrating on the myriad expressions of “irony” as one of the major impulses in the Romantic philosophical and artistic revolution, and by combining cross-cultural and interdisciplinary studies with special attention also to literatures in less widely diffused language streams. <i>Romantic Drama</i> traces creative innovations that deeply altered the understanding of genre at large, fed popular imagination through vehicles like the opera, and laid the foundations for a modernist theater of the absurd. <i>Romantic Poetry</i> demonstrates deep patterns and a sharing of crucial themes of the revolutionary age which underlie the lyrical expression that flourished in so many languages and environments. <i>Nonfictional Romantic Prose</i> assists us in coping with the vast array of writings from the personal and intimate sphere to modes of public discourse, including Romanticism’s own self-commentary in theoretical statements on the arts, society, life, the sciences, and more. Nor are the discursive dimensions of imaginative literature neglected in the closing volume, <i>Romantic Prose Fiction</i>, where the basic Romantic themes and story types (the romance, novel, novella, short story, and other narrative forms) are considered throughout Europe and the New World. This enormous realm is seen not just in terms of Romantic theorizing, but in the light of the impact of Romantic ideas and narration on later generations. As an aid to readers, the introduction to <i>Romantic Prose Fiction</i> explains the relationships among the volumes in the series and carries a listing of their tables of contents in an appendix. No other series exists comparable to these volumes which treat the entirety of Romanticism as a cultural happening across the whole breadth of the “Old” and “New” Worlds and thus render a complex picture of European spiritual strivings in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, a heritage still very close to our age. 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 2008 John Benjamins B.V. 04 US CA MX 01 245 mm 02 174 mm 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 01 02 JB 1 00 638.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 676.28 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 02 02 JB 1 00 536.00 GBP Z