British Romanticism in European Perspective [electronic resource] : Into the Eurozone /
Clark, Steve.editor.
Connolly, Tristanne.editor.
What, and when, is British Romanticism, if seen not in island isolation but cosmopolitan integration with European Romantic literature, history and culture? The essays here range from poetry and the novel to science writing, philosophy, visual art, opera and melodrama; from France and Germany to Italy and Bosnia.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Notes on the Contributors""; ""Introduction: Into the Eurozone: European Dimensions of British Romanticism, Then and Now""; ""1 The Genealogy of the Scientific Sublime: Glaciers, Mountains and the Alternating Modes of Representation""; ""2 ?Et in Arcadia Ego?: Philosophical Aesthetics and the Origins of European Romanticism in Shaftesbury?s Characteristics and Rousseau?s Reveries""; ""3 Cross-channel Discourses of Sensibility: Madeleine de Scudéry?s Clélie and Charlotte Lennox?s The Female Quixote""
""4 ?Amphibious Grown?: Hester Thrale, Della Crusca and the Italian Origins of British Romanticism""""5 L?Exception Anglaise: Joseph Priestley Abroad and Romantic Poetics""; ""6 ?Mistaken for Natives of the Soil?: Translation and Erasmus Darwin?s Loves of the Plants""; ""7 Family, Marriage and the State in Romanticism?s Other Genres""; ""8 ?What means this wild, this allegorick Mask??: British Anticipations of Romantic Opera c. 1740""; ""9 Blake and the European (Pre)History of Melodrama: Beyond the Borders of Time and Stage""
""10 From the English to the French Revolution: The Body, the World and Experience in Locke?s Essay, Bentley?s ?A Prospect of Vapourland? and Blake?s Songs""""11 ?Some roads unfold before us / Without a beaten track?: Unearthing Bosnia?s Romantic Spirit through the Hasanaginica and Mak Dizdar?s Stone Sleeper""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What, and when, is British Romanticism, if seen not in island isolation but cosmopolitan integration with European Romantic literature, history and culture? The essays here range from poetry and the novel to science writing, philosophy, visual art, opera and melodrama; from France and Germany to Italy and Bosnia.
European literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
European Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Literary History.