Romantic moods : paranoia, trauma, and melancholy, 1790-1840

Author(s)

• Pfau, Thomas

Bibliographic Information

Romantic moods : paranoia, trauma, and melancholy, 1790-1840

Thomas Pfau

Johns Hopkins University Press, c2005

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [533]-559) and index

Contents of Works

• Feeling, self-awareness, and aesthetic formalization after Kant
• Anxious inspiration : radical knowledge in Godwin and some contemporaries
• Paranoia historicized: the dialectics of treason and political representation in 1790s London
• "Long before the time of which I speak" : traumatic history and lyric awakenings, 1800-1815
• Phantasie : the post-modernity of Romantic lyricism and political conservatism
• The purest English : serialization, Eros, and melancholy in the early Keats
• Melancholy into ressentiment : aesthetic and social provocation in Heine's Buch der Lieder (1827)

Details

• NCID: BA7479153X
• ISBN:
  • 0801881978
• LCCN: 2004028273
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Baltimore
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 572 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR457
  • DC22 : 820.9/145
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Romanticism -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Literature, Comparative -- English and German
  • LCSH : Literature, Comparative -- German and English
  • LCSH : Psychic trauma in literature
  • LCSH : Melancholy in literature
  • LCSH : Paranoia in literature
  • LCSH : Emotions in literature
  • LCSH : Romanticism -- Germany