Title: The triumph of imperfection : the silver age of sociocultural moderation in Europe, 1815-1848 /
Authors: Nemoianu, Virgil.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: European literature History and criticism.; Romanticism Europe; Europe Intellectual life
Contents: Center, margin, absence. The absent center of romantic prose : Chateaubriand and his peers -- History : from politics to religion. Absorbing modernization : the dilemmas of progress in Goeth's Faust II ; From Goeth to Guizot : the conservative contexts of Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre ; From historical narrative to fiction and back : a dialectical game ; J.F. Cooper and eastern European and African American intellectuals : borders and depths of multiculturalism ; Sacrality and aesthetics in the early nineteenth century : a network approach -- Information : the moderating force. The informative narration : from cultural packaging to psychological geography ; Learning over class : the case of the central-European ethos ; National poets in the romantic age : emergence and importance ; The conservation of voracious reading : the case of Robert Southey's The doctor -- Conclusions? Romanticism : beginnings, explosion, epidemic.