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New essays offering fresh glimpses of Romanticism as interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic, illuminating the discursive features and the pan-European nature of the movement. Romanticism bubbled up as lava from such historical eruptions as the Napoleonic Wars. The power of its flow across disciplines and linguistic borders reminds us that the use of the term in a context limited to one linguistic, national, or political tradition, or to one discipline or area of human development, shows an essential ignorance of the ideational configurations elaborated and lived out by the movement. Among its consistent norms are the notion ofreality as a transcendent self-unfolding Geist, everything existing in a dialectical relationship with all else; the position that art reveals mythic understructures of reality; and that all kinds of kinship are more normalthan isolation. This book brings together essays that highlight the inclusivity of Romanticism. A team of eleven scholars offers fresh glimpses of Romanticism as it manifests itself in a number of disciplines, including most prominently literature, but also music, painting, and the sciences. In so doing, the contributors treat Romanticism as interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic, providing data and interpretive viewpoints that illuminate the discursive features and the pan-European nature of the movement. Contributors: Lloyd Davies, Ellis Dye, Stacey Hahn, Hollie Markland Harder, Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Sarah Lippert, Marjean D. Purinton, Ashley Shams, Kaitlin Gowan Southerly. Larry H. Peer is Professor of Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University. Christopher R. Clason is Professor of German at Oakland University.

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Author:   Larry H. Peer (Customer) ,  Professor Christopher R. Clason (Contributor) ,  Ashley Shams (Contributor) ,  Professor Christopher R. Clason (Contributor)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Camden House Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.446kg
ISBN:  

9781571139405

ISBN 10:   1571139400
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   30 June 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Polyvalence of Romanticism - Larry H. Peer Werther and Harold: Rapport and Difference in the Literary Articulation of the Romantic Subject - Lloyd Davies Balzac and the French New Wave: A Problematic but Enticing Relationship - Stacey Hahn Romantic Relations and Constructive Affinities: Notions of Family in Kater Murr - Christopher R. Clason Françoise's Way and Bloch's Way: Two Paths of French Romanticism in Proust's À la recherche - Hollie Markland Harder Liminal Transgressions: Gautier's Vampires in Giselle and La morte amoureuse - Jennifer Law Sullivan Liminal Transgressions: Gautier's Vampires in Giselle and La morte amoureuse - Ashley Shams The Iconography of Girodet's Endymion during the French Revolution - Sarah Lippert A Romantic Scientist in Percy Shelley's Alastor - Kaitlin Gowan Southerly Canines and Other Quadrupeds: Human and Animal Relations Staged in Romantic Drama - Marjean D. Purinton Goethe and Individuation - Ellis Dye - DECEASED IN 2017 Notes on the Contributors Index

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[U]ndertakes a new, interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic approach to Romanticism . . . . [C]ould be a welcome addition to often inward-looking English-language discourses on Romanticism . . . . FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES [A]ttests to Romanticism's vibrant plurality. CHOICE

[A]ttests to Romanticism's vibrant plurality. CHOICE

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