Overview

The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism focuses on the period beginning with the French Revolution and extending to the uprisings of 1848 across Europe. It brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The volume 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. Then follows a second section based on the naturally inter-disciplinary quality of Romanticism, encapsulated 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 understanding, and the Enlightenment encyclopaedic project. Discourses typically push their individual claims to resume European culture, collaborating and trying to assimilate each other in the process. The main examples featuring here are history, geography, drama, theology, language, geography, philosophy, political theory, the sciences, and the media. Each chapter offers original and individual interpretation of individual aspects 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 unique overview of European Romanticism.

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Author:   Paul Hamilton (Head of Department of English, Head of Department of English, Queen Mary, University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 5.00cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.608kg
ISBN:  

9780199696383

ISBN 10:   0199696381
Pages:   858
Publication Date:   14 January 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Paul Hamilton: Introduction 1: Caroline Warman: Pre-Romantic French Thought 2: Biancamaria Fontana: Literary History and Political Theory in Germaine de Staël's idea of Europe 3: Jean-Marie Roulin: François-René de Chateaubriand: Migrations and Revolution 4: Francesco Manzini: Stendhal 5: Bradley Stephens: The Novel and the (Il)Legibility of History: Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, and Alexandre Dumas 6: Sotirios Paraschas: Romantic Drama: The Mask of Genius 7: Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe: French Romantic Poetry 8: Francesco Manzini: Frenetic Romanticism 9: Alexander Regier: Johann Georg Hamann: Metacritique and Poesis in Counter-Enlightenment 10: Andrew Bowie: Freedom, Reason, and Art in Idealist and Romantic Philosophy 11: William Arctander O'Brien: Friedrich von Hardenberg (pseudonym: Novalis) 12: Maike Oergel: Jena 1789-1819: Ideas, Poetry, and Politics 13: Astrid Weigert: Gender and Genre in the Works of German Romantic Women Writers 14: Tim Mehigan: The Scepticism of Heinrich von Kleist 15: Rüdiger Görner: Friedrich Hölderlin's Romantic Classicism 16: Angus Nicholls: Goethe the Writer 17: Stefan Uhlig: Goethe's Figurative Method 18: Dennis Mahoney: Heidelberg, Dresden, Berlin, Vienna 19: Richard Aczel: Hungarian Romanticism: Re-Imagining (Literary) History 20: Joseph Luzzi: The Task of Italian Romanticism: Literary Form and Polemical Response 21: Michael Caesar: Voice, speaking, silence in Leopardi's verse 22: Franco D'Intino: Leopardi as a writer of prose 23: Giuseppe Gazzola: 'European Man and Writer': Romanticism, the Classics, and Political Action in the Exemplary Life of Ugo Foscolo. 24: Jonathan White: Manzoni's Persistence 25: Derek Flitter: Personal Demons and the Spectre of Tradition in Spanish Romantic Drama 26: Andrew Kahn: Russian Literature Between Classicism and Romanticism: Poetry, Feeling, Subjectivity 27: Luba Golburt: Alexander Pushkin as a Romantic 28: Katya Hokanson: The Geography of Russian Romantic Prose: Bestuzhev, Lermontov, Gogol and Early Dostoevsky 29: Monika Coghen: Polish Romanticism 30: Klaus Müller-Wille: Scandinavian Romanticism 31: Rodney Beaton: The Romantic construction of Greece 32: Roberto Dainotto: Geographies of Historical Discourse 33: Paul Stock: Histories of Geography 34: Douglas Moggach: Romantic Political Thought 35: Benjamin Dawson: Science and the Scientific Disciplines 36: Leon Chai: Life and Death in Paris: Medical and Life Sciences in the Romantic Era 37: Thomas Pfau: Religion 38: Diego Saglia: Theatre, Drama and Vision in the Romantic Age: Stages of the New 39: Angela Esterhammer: Identity Crises: Celebrity, Anonymity, Doubles, and Frauds in European Romanticism 40: Jan Fellerer: Theories of Language 41: Patrick Vincent: Europe's Discourse of Britain

Reviews

The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism is a splendid volume that fills a need. ... This rigorous survey of the broad European movement of Romanticism is thus a welcome reference counterpoint to what currently exists for students and researchers. Hamilton made the deft editorial decision to divide the handbook into two sections: Languages and Discourses. Considering the topic by language does justice to the critical and creative communities that saw themselves as such while avoiding the anachronistic awkwardness of referring to nations or states that did not or no longer exist. This division also allows the volume to strike a nice balance between topics one would expect and topics that are refreshingly innovative ( Discourses ). ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. --S. Barnett, CHOICE

Author Information

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).

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