Romantic Ambiguities

Abodes of the Modern
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-3-86821-727-8
Verlag: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 501 g

Reihe: Studien zur englischen Romantik

Romanticism's turn to subjective experience is based on a new awareness of the language- and media-related complexities of authentic representation. It anticipates modernist concerns and, on a more general note, the linguistic and medial turns of the twentieth century. Following James Chandler's insight that Romanticism constitutes "a cultural idiom, a whole way of being in the world", the contributions to this volume ask what is specifically modern in this cultural idiom and in how far the modernity of Romanticism depends on ambiguity as a paradigm of modernity as defined in Christoph Bode's
Ästhetik der Ambiguität
.


Contributors: Sebastian Domsch, Katharina Rennhak, Mark J. Bruhn, Nicholas Halmi, Ralf Haekel, Frank Erik Pointner, Dennis Weißenfels, Jens Martin Gurr, James Vigus, Cian Duffy, Gerold Sedlmayr, Peter J. Kitson, Frederick Burwick, Michael O'Neill, Angela Esterhammer, Martin Procházka, Ian Duncan, Pascal Fischer, Miroslawa Modrzewska, Stanislaw Modrzewski, Sabrina Sontheimer, Stefanie Fricke, Christoph Reinfandt.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Domsch, Sebastian

Reinfandt, Christoph

Rennhak, Katharina

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Sebastian Domsch and Katharina Rennhak

Introduction: Romantic Ambiguities – Abodes of the Modern        1

I Poetry
       19


Mark J. Bruhn

Ambiguity in Affect: The Modernity of Wordsworth's
Lyrical Ballads
       21


Nicholas Halmi

Two Types of Wordsworthian Ambiguity        37


Ralf Haekel

'The earth is all before me': Contingency and Ambiguity

in Milton's
Paradise Lost
and Wordsworth's
The Prelude
       53


Frank Erik Pointner and Dennis Weißenfels

From Childe Harold to Don Juan: Narrative Ambiguity in Byron's Major Works        69


Jens Martin Gurr

Views on Violence in Shelley's Post-Peterloo Prose and Poetry:

Contradiction, Ambivalence, Ambiguity?        83

II Non-Fictional Prose
       95


James Vigus

A 'Romantic State of Uncertainty': William Hazlitt's 'On Going a Journey'        97


Cian Duffy

Ambiguity and the Value of 'Literature':

Thomas De Quincey's Modernist Commodities        111


Gerold Sedlmayr

The Ambiguous Nature of the Romantic Scientification of Literary Knowledge        125


Peter J. Kitson

'Unexpected Affinities' and 'Fatal Errors':

Ambiguities in the Romantic Reception of Confucius        139

III Drama and the Novel
       151


Frederick Burwick

The Ambiguity of Time in Romantic Drama        153


Michael O'Neill

Anatomizing Casuistry: Shelley's
The Cenci
and the Fate of Analysis        169


Angela Esterhammer

Ambiguous Identities in Hogg's

Private Memoirs and

Confessions of a Justified Sinner

and Its Late-Romantic Contexts        181


Martin Procházka

Internalized Apocalypse? Ambiguities of Transcendentalism

in Melville's
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
       193


Ian Duncan

The Novel and the Romantic 'Moment'        201

IV Afterlives
       215


Pascal Fischer

The Sublime: A Category of Ambiguity        217


Miroslawa Modrzewska and Stanislaw Modrzewski

Navigational Approximations in Joseph Conrad's
World at Sea
       229


Sabrina Sontheimer

Travelling Ambiguities in the Illustrated Rimes of the Ancient Mariner        241


Stefanie Fricke

Losing and Gaining Ambiguities:

First Impressions,

Pride and Prejudice

and
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
       259


Christoph Reinfandt

The Romantic Paradigm: Ambiguity, Then and Now        279


Contributors        295


Acknowledgements        301