Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

TThe Oxford Handbook to European Romanticism brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The book focuses on the cultural history of the period extending from the French Revolution to the uprisings of 1848. It begins with a series of chapters examining key texts written by major writers in languages including: French; German; Italian; Spanish; Russian;Hungarian; Greek; and Polish amongst others. A second section then explores the naturally inter-disciplinary quality of Romanticism, exemplified by the different discourses with which writers of the time set up an internal, comparative dynamic. These chapters highlight the sense a discourse gives of beingwritten knowledgeably against other pretenders to completeness or comprehensiveness of self-understanding of the time. Discourses typically advance their own claims to resume European culture, collaborating with and at the same time trying to assimilate each other in the process. The main examples featured here are: history; geography; drama; theology; language; philosophy; political theory; the sciences; and the media. Each chapter offers an original and individual interpretation of aninherently comparative world of individual writers and the discursive idioms to which they are historically subject. Together the forty-one chapters provide a comprehensive and provocative overview of European Romanticism.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Caroline Warman: Pre-Romantic French Thought


• 2: Biancamaria Fontana: Literary History and Political Theory in Germaine de Staël's Idea of Europe


• 3: Jean-Marie Roulin: François-René de Chateaubriand: Migrations and Revolution


• 4: Francesco Manzini: Stendhal


• 5: Bradley Stephens: The Novel and the (Il)legibility of History: Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, and Alexandre Dumas


• 6: Sotirios Paraschas: Romantic Drama: The Mask of Genius


• 7: Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe: French Romantic Poetry


• 8: Francesco Manzini: Frenetic Romanticism


• 9: Alexander Regier: Johann Georg Hamann: Metacritique and Poesis in Counter-Enlightenment


• 10: Andrew Bowie: Freedom, Reason, and Art in Idealist and Romantic Philosophy


• 11: WM. Arctander O'Brien: Friedrich von Hardenberg (Pseudonym Novalis)


• 12: Maike Oergel: Jena 1789-1819: Ideas, Poetry, and Politics


• 13: Astrid Weigert: Gender and Genre in the Works of German Romantic Women Writers


• 14: Tim Mehigan: The Scepticism of Heinrich von Kleist


• 15: Rüdiger Görner: Friedrich Hölderlin's Romantic Classicism


• 16: Angus Nicholls: Goethe the Writer


• 17: Stefan H. Uhlig: Goethe's Figurative Method


• 18: Dennis F. Mahoney: Heidelberg, Dresden, Berlin, Vienna


• 19: Richard Aczel: Hungarian Romanticism: Reimagining (Literary) History


• 20: Joseph Luzzi: The Task of Italian Romanticism: Literary Form and Polemical Response


• 21: Michael Caesar: Voice, Speaking, Silence in Leopardi's Verse


• 22: Franco D'Intino: Leopardi as a Writer of Prose


• 23: Giuseppe Gazzola: 'European Man and Writer': Romanticism, the Classics, and Political Action in the Exemplary Life of Ugo Foscolo


• 24: Jonathan White: Manzoni's Persistence


• 25: Derek Flitter: Personal Demons and the Spectre of Tradition in Spanish Romantic Drama


• 26: Andrew Kahn: Russian Literature between Classicism and Romanticism: Poetry, Feeling, Subjectivity


• 27: Luba Golburt: Alexander Pushkin as a Romantic


• 28: Katya Hokanson: The Geography of Russian Romantic Prose: Bestuzhev, Lermontov, Gogol, and Early Dostoevsky


• 29: Monika Coghen: Polish Romanticism


• 30: Klaus Müller-Wille: Scandinavian Romanticism


• 31: Roderick Beaton: The Romantic Construction of Greece


• 32: Roberto Dainotto: Geographies of Historical Discourse


• 33: Paul Stock: Histories of Geography


• 34: Douglas Moggach: Romantic Political Thought


• 35: Benjamin Dawson: Science and the Scientific Disciplines


• 36: Leon Chai: Life and Death in Paris: Medical and Life Sciences in the Romantic Era


• 37: Thomas Pfau: Religion


• 38: Diego Saglia: Theatre, Drama, and Vision in the Romantic Age: Stages of the New


• 39: Angela Esterhammer: Identity Crises: Celebrity, Anonymity, Doubles, and Frauds in European Romanticism


• 40: Jan Fellerer: Theories of Language


• 41: Patrick Vincent: Europe's Discourse of Britain


• Index

About the author

Paul Hamilton read English and Philosophy at Glasgow University. He took a D.Phil. at Oxford University, where he was a Junior Research Fellow, and then College Lecturer at Balliol College. Following posts at the University of Nottingham, Exeter College, Oxford, and the University of Southampton, he became Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London in 1996. Hamilton is the author of Metaromanticism (University of Chicago Press, 2003), Coleridge and German Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2007), and Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics (OUP,2013).

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The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism provides a comprehensive guide to beginning or continuing study of European Romanticism.

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This volume shows how Romanticism can still teach us to read and see. It breathes enthusiasm and scholarly care in a way that appeals to a wide range of readers. The choice of contributors is harmonious and refreshing. Containing useful, reader-friendly features such as suggestions for further reading, this clear and engaging Handbook is an invaluable resource for anyone who intends to study and research the complexity and diversity of the Romantic period, as well as the historical conditions that produced it -- thereby appealing to a genuinely interdisciplinary audience.

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This volume shows how Romanticism can still teach us to read and see. It breathes enthusiasm and scholarly care in a way that appeals to a wide range of readers. The choice of contributors is harmonious and refreshing. Containing useful, reader-friendly features such as suggestions for further reading, this clear and engaging Handbook is an invaluable resource for anyone who intends to study and research the complexity and diversity of the Romantic period, as well as the historical conditions that produced it - thereby appealing to a genuinely interdisciplinary audience. Carmen Casaliggi, Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840

Product details

• Authors: Paul Hamilton, Paul (Head of Department of English Hamilton
• Assisted by: Paul Hamilton (Editor), Paul (Head of Department of English Hamilton (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.09.2018
• EAN: 9780198831143
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883114-3
• No. of pages: 864
• Series: Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies