Lessons of Romanticism

by Pfau, Thomas; Gleckner, Robert F.

• ISBN13: 9780822320777
• ISBN10: 0822320770
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Moving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially poetic development,Lessons of Romanticismstrives to strengthen a critical awareness of the genres, historical institutions, and material practices that comprised the culture of the period. This anthology-in recasting Romanticism in its broader cultural context-ranges across literary studies, art history, musicology, and political science and combines a variety of critical approaches, including gender studies, Lacanian analysis, and postcolonial studies. With over twenty essays on such diverse topics as the aesthetic and pedagogical purposes of art exhibits in London, the materiality of late Romantic salon culture, the extracanonical status of Jane Austen and Fanny Burney, and Romantic imagery in Beethovenrs"s music and letters,Lessons of Romanticismreveals the practices that were at the heart of European Romantic life. Focusing on the six decades from 1780 to 1832, this collection is arranged thematically around gender and genre, literacy, marginalization, canonmaking, and nationalist ideology. As Americanists join with specialists in German culture, as Austen is explored beside Beethoven, and as discussions on newly recovered womenrs"s writings follow fresh discoveries in long-canonized texts, these interdisciplinary essays not only reflect the broad reach of contemporary scholarship but also point to the long-neglected intertextual and intercultural dynamics in the various and changing faces of Romanticism itself.Contributors.Steven Bruhm, Miranda J. Burgess, Joel Faflak, David S. Ferris, William Galperin, Regina Hewitt, Jill Heydt-Stevenson, H. J. Jackson, Theresa M. Kelley, Greg Kucich, C. S. Matheson, Adela Pinch, Marc Redfield, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Marlon B. Ross, Maynard Solomon, Richard G. Swartz, Nanora Sweet, Joseph Viscomi, Karen A. Weisman, Susan I. Wolfson

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction. Reading beyond Redemption: Historicism, Irony, and the Lessons of Romanticism	1	(40)
Thomas Pfau
Varieties of Bildung in European Romanticism and Beyond	41	(132)
Romanticism, Bildung, and the Literary Absolute	41	(14)
Marc Redfield
The Inhibitions of Democracy on Romantic Political Thought: Thoreau's Democratic Individualism	55	(21)
Nancy L. Rosenblum
Between Irony and Radicalism: The Other Way of a Romantic Education	76	(13)
Karen A. Weisman
Friendly Instruction: Coleridge and the Discipline of Sociology	89	(14)
Regina Hewitt
Keats and the Aesthetics of Critical Knowledge; or, The Ideology of Studying Romanticism at the Present Time	103	(23)
David S. Ferris
Reading Habits: Scenes of Romantic Miseducation and the Challenge of Eco-Literacy	126	(31)
Marlon B. Ross
Postmodernism, Romanticism, and John Clare	157	(16)
Theresa M. Kelley
Images and Institutions of Cultural Literacy in Romanticism	173	(176)
The Lessons of Swedenborg; or, The Origin of William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell	173	(40)
Joseph Viscomi
Coleridge's Lessons in Transition: The "Logic" of the "Wildest Odes"	213	(12)
H. J. Jackson
Some Romantic Images in Beethoven	225	(19)
Maynard Solomon
"Lorenzo's" Liverpool and "Corinne's" Coppet: The Italianate Salon and Romantic Education	244	(17)
Nanora Sweet
Liberty, Connection, and Tyranny: The Novels of Jane Austen and the Aesthetic Movement of the Picturesque	261	(19)
Jill Heydt-Stevenson
The Royal Academy and the Annual Exhibition of the Viewing Public	280	(24)
C. S. Matheson
Romantic Psychoanalysis: Keats, Identity, and "(The Fall of) Hyperion"	304	(24)
Joel Faflak
"Their terrors came upon me tenfold": Literacy and Ghosts in John Clare's Autobiography	328	(21)
Richard G. Swartz
Gender, Sexuality, and the (Un) Romantic Canon	349	(118)
A Lesson in Romanticism: Gendering the Soul	349	(27)
Susan J. Wolfson
What Happens When Jane Austen and Frances Burney Enter the Romantic Canon?	376	(16)
William Galperin
Domesticating Gothic: Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, and National Romance	392	(21)
Miranda J. Burgess
Learning What Hurts: Romanticism, Pedagogy, Violence	413	(16)
Adela Pinch
Reforming Byron's Narcissism	429	(19)
Steven Bruhm
"This Horrid Theatre of Human Sufferings": Gendering the Stages of History in Catharine Macaulay and Percy Bysshe Shelley	448	(19)
Greg Kucich
Contributors	467	(4)
Index	471