Romantic Rapports: New Essays on Romanticism Across the Disciplines - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1571139400 ISBN 13: 9781571139405

Publisher: Camden House, 2017

Synopsis

New essays offering fresh glimpses of Romanticism as interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic, illuminating the discursive features and the pan-European nature of the movement. Romanticism bubbled up as lava from such historical eruptions as the Napoleonic Wars. The power of its flow across disciplines and linguistic borders reminds us that the use of the term in a context limited to one linguistic, national, or political tradition, or to one discipline or area of human development, shows an essential ignorance of the ideational configurations elaborated and lived out by the movement. Among its consistent norms are the notion ofreality as a transcendent self-unfolding Geist, everything existing in a dialectical relationship with all else; the position that art reveals mythic understructures of reality; and that all kinds of kinship are more normalthan isolation. This book brings together essays that highlight the inclusivity of Romanticism. A team of eleven scholars offers fresh glimpses of Romanticism as it manifests itself in a number of disciplines, including most prominently literature, but also music, painting, and the sciences. In so doing, the contributors treat Romanticism as interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic, providing data and interpretive viewpoints that illuminate the discursive features and the pan-European nature of the movement. Contributors: Lloyd Davies, Ellis Dye, Stacey Hahn, Hollie Markland Harder, Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Sarah Lippert, Marjean D. Purinton, Ashley Shams, Kaitlin Gowan Southerly. Larry H. Peer is Professor of Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University. Christopher R. Clason is Professor of German at Oakland University.

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[U]ndertakes a new, interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic approach to Romanticism . . . . [C]ould be a welcome addition to often inward-looking English-language discourses on Romanticism . . . . FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES

[A]ttests to Romanticism's vibrant plurality. CHOICE

Edition details

• Publisher: Camden House
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1571139400
• ISBN 13: 9781571139405
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 190
• Editor: Peer Larry H., Clason Professor Christopher R.