Comparative romanticisms : power, gender, subjectivity
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Comparative romanticisms : power, gender, subjectivity
（Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture / edited by James Hardin）
Camden House, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Essays on key aspects of Romanticism, viewed in a wider European context.
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 seenthrough too narrowly applied contemporary theoretical `-isms'.
Table of Contents
- Remapping the landscape - the Romantic literary community revisited, Stephen C. Behrendt
- mutual trust and the friendly loan - Melville and English Romanticism, Clark Davis
- Romantic and realist rubble - the foundation of a new national literature in Melville's "Pierre" and Dostoevsky's "Poor Folk", Richard Kaplan
- remembering the revolution - competing rhetorics in early Romanticism, Margaret Reid
- the unexpress'd - Walt Whitman's late thoughts on Richard Wagner, Karen Karbiener
- professionalizing gender - the female gothic, beating fantasies, and the civilizing process, Diane Long Hoeveler
- the canon-maker - Felicia Hemans and Torquato Tasso's sister, Donelle R. Ruwe
- "ungraspable phantoms" - Keats's Lamia and Melville's Yillah, Debbie Lopez
- aesthetic discourses and maternal subjects - Enlightenment roots, Schlegelian revisions, Julie Costello
- Pushkin and "Romanticizm", Larry H. Peer
- Romantic poetry and civic space in the Wordsworthian cave, Fred V. Randel
- Atala's body - Girodet and the representation of Chateaubriand's Romanticism, Michael Call
- the postponed narratives of desire in Ludwig Tieck's novel "Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen", Heather I. Sullivan.
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