Cultural interactions in the Romantic Age
Subtitle: critical essays in comparative literature
By: edited by Gregory Maertz.
Contributors: Maertz, Gregory, 1958-
Series: SUNY series, the margins of literature
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Romanticism; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism; Literature, Comparative
Description: It has been observed that the reevaluation of Romanticism is a special feature of post-New-Critical or revisionist criticism in America. Constituting a lively ecumenical dialogue between literary historians and theorists, and between critics based in comparative literature and national literature departments, the essays in Cultural Interactions in the Romantic Age offer abundant proof that this process continues unabated.

Focusing on a broad range of interactive relations from 1750 to 1850, these essays reveal as factitious the national and linguistic borders erected within the Academy and strike a blow against the tendency of literary studies to ossify into arbitrary ethnocentric categories. Cultural Interactions in the Romantic Age makes a strong argument for the position that literary activity in the Romantic Period is inseparable from international dialogue and appropriation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.