Comparative Romanticisms: Power, Gender, Subjectivity
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Despite a century of sustained critical activity and an interest level in the last ten years never before reached (as reflected in the sheer number of scholarly works produced), the study of Romanticism remains focused for the most part through individual, national, and linguistic views, and is now largely embedded in the complications of contemporary theory as applied through those limiting views. Partly responsible is the fact that Romanticism itself forms a set of rhetorical, cultural, and ideological lenses refracting a multiplicity and even chaos that at times seems to defy comparative analysis.
In an attempt to refocus on Romanticism without trying to invent a new synthesis for the movement, the editors have selected thirteen essays from a variety of older and newer scholarly voices that represent a rethinking of key Romantic texts and interrelations through the lens of three fundamental theoretical issues: power, gender, and subjectivity. They call for a newly comparative sense of Romanticism that avoids the kind of critical explication of these issues limited to single national, linguistic, or cultural traditions, or seen through too narrowly applied contemporary theoretical `-isms'.
ISBN
9781571131706
Publication Date
1998
Publisher
Camden House
City
Columbia SC
Disciplines
English Language and Literature
Comments
Acknowledgments
Introduction Larry H. Peer and Diane Long Hoeveler A Lens for Comparative Romanticisms
Power Stephen C. Behrendt Remapping the Landscape: The Romantic Literary Community Revisited
Clark Davis Mutual Trust and the Friendly Loan: Melville, Money, and Romantic Faith
Richard Kaplan Romantic and Realist Rubble: The Foundation for a New National Literature in Dostoevsky's Poor Folk and Melville's Pierre
Margaret Reid From Revolutionary Legends to The Scarlet Letter: Casting Characters for Early American Romanticism
Karen Karbiener The Unexpress'd: Walt Whitman's Late Thoughts on Richard Wagner
Gender Diane Long Hoeveler The Female Gothic, Beating Fantasies, and the Civilizing Process
Danelle R. Ruwe The Canon-Maker: Felicia Hemans and Torquato Tasso's Sister 133 Debbie Lopez "Ungraspable Phantoms": Keats's Lamia and Melville's Yillah
Julie Costello Aesthetic Discourses and Maternal Subjects: Enlightenment Roots, Schlegelian Revisions
Subjectivity Larry H. Peer Pushkin and Romantizm
Fred V. Randel Romantic Poetry and Civic Space in the W ordsworthian Cave
Michael j. Call Atala's Body: Girodet and the Representation of Chateaubriand's Romantic Christianity
Heather J. SuLLivan The Postponed Narratives of Desire in Ludwig Tieck's Novel Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen
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