Narratives of Romanticism
Selected Papers from the Wuppertal Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism
Published on 21. September 2017
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The two terms 'narrative' and 'Romanticism' have both undergone major re-definitions during the last few decades. It seems quite a long time since the lyric dominated the 'Period Formerly (and still) Known as Romanticism' and since Romantic fiction was routinely discarded as having "little intrinsic merit" (Ian Watt). While the Romantic period has now become recognised as "an extraordinarily eventful and decisive phase in the development of the British novel" (Karen O'Brien), the work of recovering and re-assessing novels as well as other narrative genres of the period is still very much in progress. A similar stimulating re-orientation and expansion of the research field has taken place in the study of narrative: new genres and media have come into focus, and various new or 'postclassical' approaches have emerged in answer to a broader concept of narrative and the increased interest in cultural and historical contextualisation.
The phrase Narratives of Romanticism is deliberately ambiguous, so as to allow for two different ways of bringing 'narrative' and 'Romanticism' together: narratives written during the Romantic period and narratives about the Romantic period. Discussions of both types of 'narratives of Romanticism' can be found in this volume. While the contributors to this volume take different approaches to narratives of Romanticism - from Deleuzian deconstruction to the cognitive sciences, affect theory and ecocriticism -, they agree on and start their arguments from the hypothesis that narratives are important human means of organising experience, whose major function is sense-making.
Contributors: Sandra Heinen, Katharina Rennhak, Ian Duncan, Jeffrey Champlin, Camille Barrera, Katrin Röder, Pascal Fischer, Ralf Haekel, Raphaël Ingelbien, Lis Møller, Angela Esterhammer, Tilottama Rajan, David Duff, Jan Alber, Mathelinda Nabugodi, Michael O'Neill, Claire Connolly, Seth T. Reno, Sabrina Sontheimer, Christopher Catanese, Saree Makdisi.
The phrase Narratives of Romanticism is deliberately ambiguous, so as to allow for two different ways of bringing 'narrative' and 'Romanticism' together: narratives written during the Romantic period and narratives about the Romantic period. Discussions of both types of 'narratives of Romanticism' can be found in this volume. While the contributors to this volume take different approaches to narratives of Romanticism - from Deleuzian deconstruction to the cognitive sciences, affect theory and ecocriticism -, they agree on and start their arguments from the hypothesis that narratives are important human means of organising experience, whose major function is sense-making.
Contributors: Sandra Heinen, Katharina Rennhak, Ian Duncan, Jeffrey Champlin, Camille Barrera, Katrin Röder, Pascal Fischer, Ralf Haekel, Raphaël Ingelbien, Lis Møller, Angela Esterhammer, Tilottama Rajan, David Duff, Jan Alber, Mathelinda Nabugodi, Michael O'Neill, Claire Connolly, Seth T. Reno, Sabrina Sontheimer, Christopher Catanese, Saree Makdisi.
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English
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Contents
Sandra Heinen and Katharina Rennhak
Narratives of Romanticism: Introduction 7
Ian Duncan
Bildung versus Roman : Germaine de Staël's Corinne 17
Jeffrey Champlin
The Future of the Broken Promise: Body Structuralism
and Earth Narrative in Frankenstein 27
Camille Barrera
The Ethics of the Storyteller's Dis/Appearance in Moby-Dick
and The Last Man 39
Katrin Röder
Emplotting Happiness: Charlotte Smith's Celestina and Desmond 53
Pascal Fischer
Anti-Illusionist Self-Reflexivity in the Conservative Romantic Novel:
Elizabeth Hamilton's Memoirs of Modern Philosophers 67
Ralf Haekel
The Narrative Construction of Irish National Identity:
The Case of Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl 79
Raphaël Ingelbien
The 'Headachy School' of Fiction: Thomas Colley Grattan
and the Irish Romantic Novel 91
Lis Møller
Ballads into Novels: Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and B. S. Ingemann's
The Childhood of King Erik Menved 103
Angela Esterhammer
Speculative Fiction and Counterfactual Narrative
in Scottish and Irish Romanticism 115
Tilottama Rajan
Sophia Lee's Baroque Narratology: The Recess and the (Dis)simulation
of the Real 123
David Duff
Turns, Transports and Transformations: Lyric Events in Romantic Poetry 137
Jan Alber
Narrating the Orient: Some Brief Eastern Episodes in Romantic Poetry 149
Mathelinda Nabugodi
Dream Revisions: Percy Bysshe Shelley's Queen Mab and Hellas 163
Michael O'Neill
Narrative and Play: Byron's Beppo and Shelley's The Witch of Atlas 177
Claire Connolly
Natural History and the History of Nature:
Environmental Narratives in Irish Romanticism 195
Seth T. Reno
Romantic Clouds: Narrating Climate Change 211
Sabrina Sontheimer
James Cook and the Other(s): Multiple Authorship and Narrating Alterity 227
Christopher Catanese
Survival Narratives: Georgic Extinction and the Romantic Genre-System 239
Saree Makdisi
Blake, Lamb, London 253
List of Contributors 269
Sandra Heinen and Katharina Rennhak
Narratives of Romanticism: Introduction 7
Ian Duncan
Bildung versus Roman : Germaine de Staël's Corinne 17
Jeffrey Champlin
The Future of the Broken Promise: Body Structuralism
and Earth Narrative in Frankenstein 27
Camille Barrera
The Ethics of the Storyteller's Dis/Appearance in Moby-Dick
and The Last Man 39
Katrin Röder
Emplotting Happiness: Charlotte Smith's Celestina and Desmond 53
Pascal Fischer
Anti-Illusionist Self-Reflexivity in the Conservative Romantic Novel:
Elizabeth Hamilton's Memoirs of Modern Philosophers 67
Ralf Haekel
The Narrative Construction of Irish National Identity:
The Case of Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl 79
Raphaël Ingelbien
The 'Headachy School' of Fiction: Thomas Colley Grattan
and the Irish Romantic Novel 91
Lis Møller
Ballads into Novels: Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and B. S. Ingemann's
The Childhood of King Erik Menved 103
Angela Esterhammer
Speculative Fiction and Counterfactual Narrative
in Scottish and Irish Romanticism 115
Tilottama Rajan
Sophia Lee's Baroque Narratology: The Recess and the (Dis)simulation
of the Real 123
David Duff
Turns, Transports and Transformations: Lyric Events in Romantic Poetry 137
Jan Alber
Narrating the Orient: Some Brief Eastern Episodes in Romantic Poetry 149
Mathelinda Nabugodi
Dream Revisions: Percy Bysshe Shelley's Queen Mab and Hellas 163
Michael O'Neill
Narrative and Play: Byron's Beppo and Shelley's The Witch of Atlas 177
Claire Connolly
Natural History and the History of Nature:
Environmental Narratives in Irish Romanticism 195
Seth T. Reno
Romantic Clouds: Narrating Climate Change 211
Sabrina Sontheimer
James Cook and the Other(s): Multiple Authorship and Narrating Alterity 227
Christopher Catanese
Survival Narratives: Georgic Extinction and the Romantic Genre-System 239
Saree Makdisi
Blake, Lamb, London 253
List of Contributors 269