Klancher A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0857-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture

A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age provides newperspectives on the relationships between literature and culture inBritain from 1780 to 1830
* Provides original essays from a variety of multi-disciplinaryscholars on the Romantic era
* Includes fresh insights into such topics as religiouscontroversy and politics, empire and nationalism, and therelationship of Romanticism to modernist aesthetics
* Ranges across the Romantic era's literary, visual, andnon-fictional genres

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klancher, Jon

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Jon Klancher
1 Transfiguring God: Religion, Revolution, Romanticism 14
Robert M. Maniquis
2 Romanticism and Empire 36
Saree Makdisi
3 "Associations Respect[ing] the Past": Enlightenment and Romantic Historicism 57
Anthony Jarrells
4 Nationalisms in Romantic Britain and Ireland: Culture, Politics, and the Global 77
Miranda Burgess
5 "With an Industry Incredible": Politics, Writing, and the Public Sphere 99
Paul Keen
6 Romantic Justice: Law, Literature, and Individuality 119
Mark Schoenfield
7 Natural History in the Romantic Period 141
Noah Heringman
8 Romantic Sciences: British and Continental Thresholds 168
Frederick Burwick
9 Consumer Culture: Getting and Spending in the Romantic Age 189
Nicholas Mason
10 The Romantic-Era Book Trade 212
Lee Erickson
11 Visual Pleasures, Visionary States: Art, Entertainment, and the Nation 232
Gillen D'Arcy Wood
12 What's at Stake? Kantian Aesthetics, Romantic and Modern Poetics, Sociopolitical Commitment 257
Robert Kaufman
Index 283

Über Autor(innen)

Jon Klancher teaches Romantic and Victorian literature, the sociology of culture, and the history of books and reading at Carnegie Mellon University. He has written widely on Romantic and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural history in such journals and collections as ELH, Studies in Romanticism, MLQ, Romantic Metropolis, The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, The New Historicism, and The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1837. Author of The Making of English Reading Audiences, 1790-1832 (1987), he is currently completing a book, Transfiguring "Arts & Sciences": Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age.