Lessons of Romanticism

by Pfau, Thomas; Gleckner, Robert F.; Redfield, Marc (CON); Rosenblum, Nancy (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822320913
• ISBN10: 0822320916
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• 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

Introduction: Reading beyond Redemption: Historicism, Irony, and the Lessons of Romanticism

Varieties of Bildung in European Romanticism and Beyond

Romanticism, Bildung, and the Literary Absolute

The Inhibitions of Democracy on Romantic Political Thought: Thoreau's Democratic Individualism

Between Irony and Radicalism: The Other Way of a Romantic Education

Friendly Instruction: Coleridge and the Discipline of Sociology

Keats and the Aesthetics of Critical Knowledge or, The Ideology of Studying Romanticism at the Present Time

Reading Habits: Scenes of Romantic Miseducation and the Challenge of Eco-Literacy

Postmodernism, Romanticism, and John Clare

Images and Institutions of Cultural Literacy in Romanticism

The Lessons of Swedenborg or, The Origin of William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Coleridge's Lessons in Translation: The "Logic" of the "Wildest Odes"

Some Romantic Images in Beethoven

"Lorenzo's" Liverpool and "Corinne's" Coppet: The Italianate Salon and Romantic Education

Liberty, Connection, and Tyranny: The Novels of Jane Austen and the Aesthetic Movement of the Picturesque

The Royal Academy and the Annual Exhibition of the Viewing Public

Romantic Psychoanalysis: Keats, Identity, and "(The Fall of) Hyperion"

"Their terrors came upon me tenfold": Literacy and Ghosts in John Clare's Autobiography

Gender, Sexuality, and the (Un)Romantic Canon

A Lesson in Romanticism: Gendering the Soul

What Happens When Jane Austen and Frances Burney Enter the Romantic Canon?

Domesticating Gothic: Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, and National Romance

Learning What Hurts: Romanticism, Pedagogy, Violence

Reforming Byron's Narcissism

"This Horrid Theatre of Human Sufferings": Gendering the Stages of History in Catharine Macaulay and Percy Bysshe Shelly

Contributors

Index

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