Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism
Gender and Selfhood, Politics and Nation
Published on 18. May 2017
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-1-4742-5066-5 (ISBN)
Description
Bringing together leading scholars from the USA, UK and Europe, this is the first substantial study of the seminal influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on British Romanticism.
Reconsidering Rousseau's connection to canonical Romantic authors such as Wordsworth, Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism also explores his impact on a wide range of literature, including anti-Jacobin fiction, educational works, familiar essays, nature writing and political discourse. Convincingly demonstrating that the relationship between Rousseau's thought and British Romanticism goes beyond mere reception or influence to encompass complex forms of connection, transmission and appropriation, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism is a vital new contribution to scholarly understanding of British Romantic literature and its transnational contexts.
Reconsidering Rousseau's connection to canonical Romantic authors such as Wordsworth, Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism also explores his impact on a wide range of literature, including anti-Jacobin fiction, educational works, familiar essays, nature writing and political discourse. Convincingly demonstrating that the relationship between Rousseau's thought and British Romanticism goes beyond mere reception or influence to encompass complex forms of connection, transmission and appropriation, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism is a vital new contribution to scholarly understanding of British Romantic literature and its transnational contexts.
Reviews / Votes
Rousseau's relationship to Romanticism is explored in some superb essays ... British Romantic women writers, Julie and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the Romantic essayists are some of the topics covered in this collection. * SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
564 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4742-5066-5 (9781474250665)
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Gender and Selfhood, Politics and Nation
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Persons
Russell Goulbourne is Professor of French Literature at King's College London, UK. He is the author of Voltaire Comic Dramatist (2006) and a scholarly translation of Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker (2011).
David Higgins is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published widely on Romantic-period literature, including the books Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine (2005) and Romantic Englishness: Local, National, and Global Selves, 1780-1850 (2014).
David Higgins is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published widely on Romantic-period literature, including the books Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine (2005) and Romantic Englishness: Local, National, and Global Selves, 1780-1850 (2014).
Content
Introduction
1. Rousseau and British Romantic Women Writers, Stephen C. Behrendt (University of Nebraska, USA)
2. 'Rousseau's Ground': Locating a Refuge for the Libertarian Man of Feeling in Julie, or the New Heloise and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Helen Stark (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
3. 'The Columbus of the Alps': Rousseau and the Writing of Mountain Experience in British Literature of the Romantic Period, Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster University, UK)
4. Romanticism and Rousseau in Wales, Heather Williams (University of Wales, UK)
5. Enchanted Ground?: Rousseau, Republicanism and Switzerland, Patrick Vincent (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
6. Reading Rousseau in the Anti-Jacobin Novel, Pascal Fischer (University of Bamberg, Germany)
7. 'The Scene Itself': Rousseauvian Drama and Roman Space in Shelley's The Cenci, Rebecca Nesvet (University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, USA)
8. Rousseauvian Vision and Anthropology in Percy Shelley's Alastor, Thomas Roche (University of Georgia Press, USA)
9. Rousseau's Boat: The 'Fifth Walk', Romanticism and Idleness, Rowan Boyson (Kings College London, UK)
10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile and Britain, Frances Ferguson (University of Chicago, USA)
11. Rousseau and the Romantic Essayists, Gregory Dart (University College London, UK)
Index
1. Rousseau and British Romantic Women Writers, Stephen C. Behrendt (University of Nebraska, USA)
2. 'Rousseau's Ground': Locating a Refuge for the Libertarian Man of Feeling in Julie, or the New Heloise and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Helen Stark (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
3. 'The Columbus of the Alps': Rousseau and the Writing of Mountain Experience in British Literature of the Romantic Period, Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster University, UK)
4. Romanticism and Rousseau in Wales, Heather Williams (University of Wales, UK)
5. Enchanted Ground?: Rousseau, Republicanism and Switzerland, Patrick Vincent (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
6. Reading Rousseau in the Anti-Jacobin Novel, Pascal Fischer (University of Bamberg, Germany)
7. 'The Scene Itself': Rousseauvian Drama and Roman Space in Shelley's The Cenci, Rebecca Nesvet (University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, USA)
8. Rousseauvian Vision and Anthropology in Percy Shelley's Alastor, Thomas Roche (University of Georgia Press, USA)
9. Rousseau's Boat: The 'Fifth Walk', Romanticism and Idleness, Rowan Boyson (Kings College London, UK)
10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile and Britain, Frances Ferguson (University of Chicago, USA)
11. Rousseau and the Romantic Essayists, Gregory Dart (University College London, UK)
Index