Description
This wide-ranging new history of European Romantic Literature presents a pan-European phenomenon which transcended national borders and contributed to a new sense of European cultural identity across the continent. Conceived in the same spirit as Madame de Staël's cultural and political agenda at a time when her 'generous idea' of Europe is being challenged on all sides, the volume pays close attention to the period's circulation of people, ideas, and texts. It proposes to rethink the period comparatively, focusing on various forms of cultural mediation and transfer, and on productive tensions, synchronicities, and interactions within and across borders. Organized chronologically, its twenty chapters address over five hundred works, proposing a coherent historical narrative without completely erasing individual nations' specificities. By showcasing in particular the place of Britain within continental culture, the volume hopes to reactivate critical examinations of Romanticism from a historicised European perspective.
Table of Contents
Introduction: inventing a European romanticism Patrick Vincent; Part I. Romantic Genealogies (1750–1790): 1. The discovery of the past Noah Heringman; 2. Discourses of nature Kate Rigby; 3. The romantic sublime Cian Duffy; 4. Cultures of sensibility Enit Karafili Steiner; 5. Gothic circulations Angela Wright; 6. The crisis of enlightenment Simon Swift; Part II. Revolution to Restoration (1790–1815): 7. Transcendental revolutions Nicholas Halmi; 8. Citizens of the world Maike Oergel; 9. Romantic loss, emigration and exile Catriona Seth; 10. Women writers' networks Gillian Dow; 11. Romantic nationalisms Joep Leerssen; 12. Shakespeare and romantic drama Frederick Burwick; 13. Classics and romantics Diego Saglia; Part III. Restoration to Revolution (1815–1850): 14. The 'restoration' of restoration Paul Hamilton; 15. Late romanticism and print culture Angela Esterhammer; 16. Global romanticisms Evan Gottlieb; 17. No longer at ease: the romantic novel in Europe Katie Trumpener; 18. Literatures of the north Lis Möller; 19. Russian empire and the territories of romanticism Luba Golburt; Acknowledgments.
