Cultural Interactions in the Romantic Age - Critical Essays in Comparative Literature

It has been observed that the reevaluation of Romanticism is a special feature of post-New-Critical or revisionist criticism in America. Constituting a lively ecumenical dialogue between literary historians and theorists, and between critics based in comparative literature and national literature departments, the essays in Cultural Interactions in the Romantic Age offer abundant proof that this process continues unabated. Focusing on a broad range of interactive relations from 1750 to 1850, these essays reveal as factitious the national and linguistic borders erected within the Academy and strike a blow against the tendency of literary studies to ossify into arbitrary ethnocentric categories. Cultural Interactions in the Romantic Age makes a strong argument for the position that literary activity in the Romantic Period is inseparable from international dialogue and appropriation.

About the author

Gregory Maertz is Associate Professor of English at St. John's University.

Product details

• Assisted by: Gregory Maertz (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.1998
• EAN: 9780791435601
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-3560-1
• No. of pages: 258
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 226 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 358 g
• Series: Suny Series, the Margins of Li; Suny Series, the Margins of Li
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies