Narratives of Romanticism

Selected Papers from the Wuppertal Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-3-86821-726-1
Verlag: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 452 g

Reihe: Studien zur englischen Romantik

The two terms 'narrative' and 'Romanticism' have both undergone major re-definitions during the last few decades. It seems quite a long time since the lyric dominated the 'Period Formerly (and still) Known as Romanticism' and since Romantic fiction was routinely discarded as having "little intrinsic merit" (Ian Watt). While the Romantic period has now become recognised as "an extraordinarily eventful and decisive phase in the development of the British novel" (Karen O'Brien), the work of recovering and re-assessing novels as well as other narrative genres of the period is still very much in progress. A similar stimulating re-orientation and expansion of the research field has taken place in the study of narrative: new genres and media have come into focus, and various new or 'postclassical' approaches have emerged in answer to a broader concept of narrative and the increased interest in cultural and historical contextualisation.


The phrase
Narratives of Romanticism
is deliberately ambiguous, so as to allow for two different ways of bringing 'narrative' and 'Romanticism' together: narratives
written during
the Romantic period and narratives
about
the Romantic period. Discussions of both types of 'narratives of Romanticism' can be found in this volume. While the contributors to this volume take different approaches to narratives of Romanticism – from Deleuzian deconstruction to the cognitive sciences, affect theory and ecocriticism –, they agree on and start their arguments from the hypothesis that narratives are important human means of organising experience, whose major function is sense-making.


Contributors: Sandra Heinen, Katharina Rennhak, Ian Duncan, Jeffrey Champlin, Camille Barrera, Katrin Röder, Pascal Fischer, Ralf Haekel, Raphaël Ingelbien, Lis Møller, Angela Esterhammer, Tilottama Rajan, David Duff, Jan Alber, Mathelinda Nabugodi, Michael O'Neill, Claire Connolly, Seth T. Reno, Sabrina Sontheimer, Christopher Catanese, Saree Makdisi.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heinen, Sandra

Rennhak, Katharina

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Sandra Heinen and Katharina Rennhak

Narratives of Romanticism: Introduction         7


Ian Duncan
Bildung
versus
Roman
: Germaine de Staël's
Corinne
       17


Jeffrey Champlin

The Future of the Broken Promise: Body Structuralism

and Earth Narrative in
Frankenstein
       27


Camille Barrera

The Ethics of the Storyteller's Dis/Appearance in
Moby-Dick
and
The Last Man
       39


Katrin Röder

Emplotting Happiness: Charlotte Smith's
Celestina
and
Desmond
       53


Pascal Fischer

Anti-Illusionist Self-Reflexivity in the Conservative Romantic Novel:

Elizabeth Hamilton's
Memoirs of Modern Philosophers
       67


Ralf Haekel

The Narrative Construction of Irish National Identity:

The Case of Sydney Owenson's
The Wild Irish Girl
       79


Raphaël Ingelbien

The 'Headachy School' of Fiction: Thomas Colley Grattan

and the Irish Romantic Novel        91


Lis Møller

Ballads into Novels: Walter Scott's
Ivanhoe
and B. S. Ingemann's
The Childhood of King Erik Menved
       103


Angela Esterhammer

Speculative Fiction and Counterfactual Narrative

in Scottish and Irish Romanticism        115


Tilottama Rajan

Sophia Lee's Baroque Narratology:
The Recess
and the (Dis)simulation

of the Real        123


David Duff

Turns, Transports and Transformations: Lyric Events in Romantic Poetry       137


Jan Alber

Narrating the Orient: Some Brief Eastern Episodes in Romantic Poetry        149


Mathelinda Nabugodi

Dream Revisions: Percy Bysshe Shelley's
Queen Mab
and
Hellas
       163


Michael O'Neill

Narrative and Play: Byron's
Beppo
and Shelley's
The Witch of Atlas
       177


Claire Connolly

Natural History and the History of Nature:

Environmental Narratives in Irish Romanticism        195


Seth T. Reno

Romantic Clouds: Narrating Climate Change        211


Sabrina Sontheimer

James Cook and the Other(s): Multiple Authorship and Narrating Alterity        227


Christopher Catanese

Survival Narratives: Georgic Extinction and the Romantic Genre-System        239


Saree Makdisi

Blake, Lamb, London        253


List of Contributors        269