Nonfictional Romantic Prose
Expanding borders
SPECIAL OFFER: 30% discount for a complete set order (5 vols.).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. Romantic Irony 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. Romantic Drama 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. Romantic Poetry 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. Nonfictional Romantic Prose 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, Romantic Prose Fiction, 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 Romantic Prose Fiction 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.
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Table of Contents
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Preface | p. vii
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I. General IntroductionVirgil Nemoianu | pp. 1–10
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II. Romantic Theoretical and Critical Writing | pp. 11–12
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Theories of Romanticism: The First Two Hundred YearsMonika Schmitz-Emans | pp. 13–36
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Romantic Disavowals of Romanticism, 1800–1830John Isbell | pp. 37–55
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Hegel and Hegelianism in European RomanticismGerhart Hoffmeister | pp. 57–68
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The Aesthetics of German Idealism and Its Reception in European RomanticismManfred Engel and Juergen Lehmann | pp. 69–95
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Romantic Theories of National Literature and Language in Germany, England, and FranceMary Anne Perkins | pp. 97–106
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Sir Walter Scott and the Beginnings of EthnologyCarolyn Buckley-LaRocque | pp. 107–113
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III. Expansions in Time | p. 115
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Burke’s Conservatism and Its Echoes on the Continent and in the United StatesMichael Gassenmeier and Jens Martin Gurr | pp. 117–139
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Distorted Echoes: The Mythologies of Nordic NationalismSteven P. Sondrup | pp. 141–161
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IV. Expansions in Space | p. 163
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Romantic Travel NarrativesMircea Anghelescu | pp. 165–180
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Romanticism and Nonfictional Prose in Spanish America, 1780–1850Joselyn M. Almeida | pp. 181–193
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V. Expansions of the Self | pp. 195–196
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Allegories of Address: The Poetics of the Romantic DiaryFrederick Garber | pp. 197–121
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The Romantic Subject in AutobiographyEugene Stelzig | pp. 223–239
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Educating for Women’s Future: Thinking New FormsCarol Strauss Sotiropoulos and Margaret R. Higonnet | pp. 241–264
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VI. Generic Expansions | pp. 265–266
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The Romantic Familiar EssayFrederick Garber | pp. 267–284
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The Unending Conversation: The Role of Periodicals in England and on the Continent during the Romantic AgeJohn Boening | pp. 285–301
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Almanacs and Romantic Non-fictional ProseMadison U. Sowell | pp. 303–316
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The Romantic Pamphlet: Stylistic and Thematic Impurity of a Double-Edged GenreMonica Spiridon | pp. 317–331
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Costumbrismo in Spanish Literature and its European AnaloguesJosé Manuel Losada | pp. 333–346
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VII. Intersections: Scientific and Artistic Discourses in the Romantic Age | pp. 347–348
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Romanticism, the Unconscious, and the BrainAlan Richardson | pp. 349–364
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Literary Sources of Romantic PsychologyJoel Black | pp. 365–375
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Romantic Discourse on the Visual ArtsGerald Gillespie | pp. 377–402
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Aspects of German Romantic Musical DiscourseSteven P. Sondrup | pp. 403–419
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VIII. Intimations of Transcendence | p. 421
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Sacrality as Aesthetic in the Early Nineteenth Century: A Network ApproachVirgil Nemoianu | pp. 423–432
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The Myth of the Fallen Angel: Its Theosophy in Scandinavian, English, and French LiteratureJosé Manuel Losada | pp. 433–457
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IX. Conclusion: Romanticism as Explosion and EpidemicVirgil Nemoianu | pp. 459–466
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Index | pp. 467–477
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