Description
The archive of Romantic studies is every day expanding far beyond its Anglo-European confines, incorporating an ever-volatile constellation of works that, like World Literature, understands itself not in any monolithically Western sense but instead as a rhizomatic, polycentric expansion of temporalities, histories, and cultures. Here, a diverse cast of expert scholars reflect on how key concepts in Romantic literary and philosophical writings – periodicity, revolution, empire and settler culture, modernity, abolition, and the problem of language – inspire World Literature's conception of its own methodologies and texts. Covering writers ranging from Lord Byron, Immanuel Kant, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Clare to Simon Bolivar, Hérard Dumesle, Hafez, Rabindranath Tagore, and Ocean Vuong, this collection showcases how the fields of Romanticism and World Literature interact in ways that create new horizons for the study of planetary culture.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction Emily Sun and Orrin N. C. Wang; Part I. Language: 1. Philology Christoph König; 2. Translation Paresh Chandra; 3. Criticism and methodology David L. Clark; Part II. History and Temporalities: 4. Periodicity and periodization Eun Kyung Min; 5. Modernity, modernization, westernization Saree Makdisi; 6. Romanticism and the contemporary Forest Pyle; Part III. Politics: 7. Revolution and emancipation Carlos Abreu Mendoza; 8. Empire and empires Arif Camoglu; 9. Slavery and abolition Bakary Diaby; 10. Gender and sexuality Humberto Garcia; Part IV. Culture and Aesthetics: 11. Aesthetics and aesthetic ideology Deborah Elise White; 12. Ecological imaginations Alexis Harley; 13. Genres local and global Katarzyna Bartoszynska; 14. Media, techné, mediations Olivia Loksing Moy; Further reading; Index.
