Overview
Employs an innovative approach by ""stages"" to offer a unified vision of European Romanticism over the half-century of its growth and decline. Romanticism was a truly European phenomenon, extending roughly from the French Revolution to the 1848 revolutions and embracing not only literature and drama but also music and visual arts. Because of Romanticism's vast scope, most treatments have restricted themselves to single countries or to specific forms, notably literature, art, or music. This book takes a wider view by considering in each of six chapters representative examples of works - from across Europe and across a range of the arts - that were created in a single year. For instance, in the first chapter, focusing on the year 1798, Beethoven's Pathetique sonata, Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads,Tieck's novel Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen, and Goya's painting El sueno de la razon. The following chapters treat works from the years 1808, 1818, 1828, 1838, and 1848. This approach by ""stages"" makes it possible to determine characteristics of six stages of Romanticism in its historical and intellectual context and to note the conspicuous differences between these stages as European Romanticism developed-for example, the waxing and waning of religious themes, the shifting visions of landscape, the gradual ironic detachment from early Romanticism. In sum, the volume offers a unified vision of European Romanticism in all its aesthetic forms over the half-centuryof its growth and decline. Theodore Ziolkowski is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Princeton University.
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Author: Theodore Ziolkowski (Contributor)
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: Camden House Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.536kg
ISBN: 9781640140424
ISBN 10: 1640140425
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 15 October 2018
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: 1798 Beethoven, Grande Sonate Pathétique Wordsworth/Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads Brothers Schlegel, Athenaeum Tieck, Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen Goya, El sueño de la razón produce monstruos Findings CHAPTER TWO: 1808 Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 Fichte, Reden an die deutsche Nation Scott, Marmion Arnim/Brentano, Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Zeitung für Einsiedler Kleist, Die Hermannsschlacht C. D. Friedrich, Tetschener Altar Digression: Goethe, Faust I Findings CHAPTER THREE: 1818 Rossini, Mosè in Egitto Lamartine, Saül Hoffmann, Die Serapionsbrüder Mary Shelley, Frankenstein C. D. Friedrich, Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer Findings CHAPTER FOUR: 1828 Schubert, Die Winterreise Scott, The Fair Maid of Perth Hugo, Cromwell Mickiewicz, Konrad Wallenrod Eichendorff, Ezelin von Romano Constable, Hampstead Heath, Branch Hill Pond Findings CHAPTER FIVE: 1838 Schumann, Kreisleriana Brentano, Gockel, Hinkel und Gackeleia Mérimée, La Vénus d'Ille Poe, Ligeia Delacroix, Médée furieuse Findings CHAPTER SIX: 1848 Verdi, Il corsaro Dumas, La Dame aux camélias Grillparzer, Der arme Spielmann Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Spitzweg, Gnom, Eisenbahn betrachtend Findings CONCLUSIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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Written in a clear, engaging style... an accessible introduction to a wide range of Romantic texts of different genres and other Romantic artworks. OXFORD COMPARATIVE CRITICISM AND TRANSLATION REVIEW
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Theodore Ziolkowski is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Princeton University.
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