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As a set of responses to the rapidly changing modern world, Romanticism has lost none of its topicality today. For the last 250 years it has persisted in all available media, and continues to shape a great variety of cultural practices in fields as diverse as literature and the arts, fashion and film, popular culture, the sciences and politics. Assembling selected papers from the 12th International Symposium of the German Society for English Romanticism, this volume is dedicated to the validity of Romanticism Today. It showcases how current cultural perspectives facilitate new readings of Romantic texts, as well as how readings of current cultural perspectives are inevitably confronted with the pervasive continuity of Romanticism.L. Eckstein & C. Reinfandt: Romanticism Today and How It Got HereD. Simpson: Wordsworth after 1989M. Irimia: A Late Modern View of Revolutionary RomanticismsP.H. Fry: Romanticism as TheoryT. Rajan: The Psychoanalytic Turn of IdealismG. Sedlmayr: Reading Blake through RicoeurR. Karl: The Brain as Emancipative Power PlantR. Haekel: Romanticism, Materialism, and NeuroscienceS. Domsch: Welsh Indians, British Pantisocrats, and an Irish PoetK. Merten: Theatrical Subjectivity in Beckett and FriedrichR. Lüdeke: Media Politics in Burroughs and BlakeK. Rennhak: On the Longevity of the Romantic SubjectM. Butler: Of Delusional Disorders and Schizophrenic SelvesS. Fricke: Representations of Jane Austen in Popular CultureE. Varsamopoulou: Dying for Art M. Modrzewska: The Romantic Myth of SlavdomF.E. Pointner: Hunt Emerson's The Rime of the Ancient MarinerM. Seidl: British Fashion and Romanticism Today
