British romanticism in European perspective
Subtitle: into the eurozone
By: edited by Steve Clark, Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan ; Tristanne Connolly, Associate Professor of English, St. Jerome's University, Canada
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781137461957
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General; English literature; Nationalism in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; History and criticism; Romanticism; Appreciation; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Description: "This collection asks what British Romanticism looks like in the context of European literature, history and culture.  Romanticism is at the root of modern European nationalism. The Romantic idea of national character contributes to the tendency to study national Romanticisms in isolation, despite the cosmopolitan international circulation also essential to the movement. Britain's complex identity as island, United Kingdom, and European nation highlights the ways the forces of separatism and unity, nationalism and internationalism work in constant tension in the understanding of nation that has grown from Romanticism.  The character, and the dating, of Romanticism alter when perceived from different national and generic perspectives. The essays here range from poetry and the novel to science writing, philosophy, visual art, opera and melodrama, placing British Romanticism in relation to other European traditions, from France and Germany to Italy and Bosnia"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List Of Illustrations; title: Acknowledgements; title: Notes On The Contributors; title: Introduction. Into The Eurozone: European Dimensions Of British Romanticism, Then And Now; Steve Clark And Tristanne Connolly; title: 1. The Genealogy Of The Scientific Sublime: Glaciers, Mountains, And The Alternating Modes Of Representation; Kaz Oishi; title: 2. Et In Arcadia Ego: Philosophical Aesthetics And The Origins Of European Romanticism In Shaftesbury's Characteristics And Rousseau's Reveries; Evy Varsamopoulou; title: 3. Cross-Channel Discourses Of Sensibility: Madeleine De Scude;ry's Cle;lie (1660) And Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote (1752); Kimiyo Ogawa; title: 4. Amphibious Grown: Hester Thrale, Della Crusca And The Italian Origins Of British Romanticism; Steve Clark; title: 5. L'Exception Anglaise: Joseph Priestley Abroad And Romantic Poetics; Stephen Bygrave; title: 6. 'Mistaken For Natives Of The Soil': Translation And Erasmus Darwin's Loves Of The Plants; Tristanne Connolly; title: 7. Family, Marriage, And The State In Romanticism's Other Genres; David Shakespeare; title: 8. 'What Means This Wild, This Allegorick Mask?': British Anticipations Of Romantic Opera C. 1740; David Chandler; title: 9. Blake And The European (Pre)History Of Melodrama: Beyond The Borders Of Time And Stage; Diane Piccitto; title: 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; Peter Otto; title: 11. 'Some Roads Unfold Before Us / Without A Beaten Track': Unearthing Bosnia's Romantic Spirit Through The Poetry Of Mak Dizdar; Maja Pa&#353;ovic; title: Bibliography; title: Index.