Romanticism and the Forms of Discontent

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-3-86821-739-1
Verlag: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 400 g

Reihe: Studien zur englischen Romantik

If, as Sigmund Freud argues, to be in culture is the same as to feel a kind of unease, a kind of discontent, then what is the specific, historically differentiated place of Romanticism in the cultural history of unease? What are the
forms
that discontent takes in an age of increasing, indeed unprecedented pressure on the individual, an age that, at the same time, offers a new space in which such discontent can be voiced and visions of a non-repressive existence can be sketched – in the realm of the aesthetic? Blending theory with close textual analysis, this volume offers a series of case studies that, while identifying a concrete historical moment, also point to some deep continuities between Romanticism and the society we live in today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bode, Christoph

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ContentsChristoph Bode
Preface        7

Christoph Bode
Romanticism as a Form of Discontent        13

Nicholas Halmi
Past and Future, Discontent and Unease        87

Timothy Michael
Keats and Uneasiness        101

Katharina Pink
Romantic Discontent and its Discontents        121

Ralf Haekel
Discontent and Dialectics:

Percy Bysshe Shelley's
Laon and Cythna
and
The Triumph of Life
       137

Katharina Rennhak
Mary Shelley's Fictions of Cultural Discontent:

Attachments of Cruel Optimism in
Frankenstein
,
Matilda
and
Lodore
       157

Christoph Reinfandt
The Persistence of Romantic Discontent:

From Wordsworth's
The Prelude
to Knausgaard's
My Struggle
       181


Contributors        211