Romanticism at the End of History

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7903-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 427 g

The Romantics lived through a turn of the century that, like our own, seemed to mark an end to history as it had long been understood. They faced accelerated change, including unprecedented state power, armies capable of mass destruction, a polyglot imperial system, and a market economy driven by speculation. In Romanticism at the End of History, Jerome Christensen challenges the prevailing belief that the Romantics were reluctant to respond to social injustice. Through provocative and searching readings of the poetry of Wordsworth; the poems, criticism, and journalism of Coleridge; the Confessions of De Quincey; and Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, Christensen concludes that during complicated times of war and revolution English Romantic writers were forced to redefine their role as artists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Christensen, Jerome

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Romantic Movement at the End of History
Chapter 2. The Color of Imagination and the Office of Romantic Criticism
Chapter 3. Ecce Homo: The End of the French Revolution and the Romantic Reinvention of English Verse
Chapter 4. The Dark Romanticism of the Edinburgh Review
Chapter 5. Romantic Hope: The Maid of Buttermere, the Right to Write, and the Future of Liberalism
Chapter 6. Clerical Liberalism: Walter Scott's World Picture
Chapter 7. Using: Romantic Ethics and Digital Media in the Ruins of the University
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christensen, Jerome
Jerome Christensen is chair of the English Department at the Univeristy of California, Irvine. He is also the author of Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society, also available from Johns Hopkins.