Full Description
This study presents a new approach to the theory of Romanticism. Peer proceeds though key Romantic documents about form and structure, while displacing and condensing modern scholarly assumptions that interrupt modern theoretical protocol. A line of development is suggested, moving from eighteenth-century explorations in Kant, Fielding, and Diderot, through Schlegelian Romantic beginnings, and on through Emily Brontë, Pushkin, and the Romantic Manifesto, culminating in the profound achievement of Manzoni. Summarizing Romantic narrative implications by looking at the modern discipline of Comparative Literature, this book deliberately deforms both our contemporary ideas about Romanticism as well as our non-Romantic way of teaching it.
Contents
Chapter 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 The Name and Nature of Romanticism Revisited
Chapter 4 Beginnings: Fielding, Diderto, and Kant
Chapter 5 Friedrich Schlegel's Theory of the Novel
Chapter 6 Heathcliff and Pushkin
Chapter 7 Manzoni's Theory of the Novel
Chapter 8 The Romantic Manifesto
Chapter 9 Romantic Educational Form: The Case of Comparative Literature
Chapter 10 A Novel Conclusion
Chapter 11 Bibliography
Chapter 12 About the Author
Chapter 13 Index
