A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 13. March 2009
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-631-23355-8 (ISBN)
Description
A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age provides new perspectives on the relationships between literature and culture in Britain from 1780 to 1830
Provides original essays from a variety of multi-disciplinary scholars on the Romantic era
Includes fresh insights into such topics as religious controversy and politics, empire and nationalism, and the relationship of Romanticism to modernist aesthetics
Ranges across the Romantic era's literary, visual, and non-fictional genres
Provides original essays from a variety of multi-disciplinary scholars on the Romantic era
Includes fresh insights into such topics as religious controversy and politics, empire and nationalism, and the relationship of Romanticism to modernist aesthetics
Ranges across the Romantic era's literary, visual, and non-fictional genres
Reviews / Votes
"Though unusually well (and often quotably) written for collections of this type, the volume is best suited to specialists, who will find plenty of usable nuggets here." (CHOICE, 2009)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Adult education
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
599 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-23355-8 (9780631233558)
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Jon Klancher
A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age
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04/2009
Wiley-Blackwell
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Person
Jon Klancher teaches Romantic and Victorian literature, the sociology of culture, and the history of books and reading at Carnegie Mellon University. He has written widely on Romantic and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural history in such journals and collections as ELH, Studies in Romanticism, MLQ, Romantic Metropolis, The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, The New Historicism, and The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1837. Author of The Making of English Reading Audiences, 1790-1832 (1987), he is currently completing a book, Transfiguring "Arts & Sciences": Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age.
Content
List of Illustrations vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Jon Klancher
1 Transfiguring God: Religion, Revolution, Romanticism 14
Robert M. Maniquis
2 Romanticism and Empire 36
Saree Makdisi
3 "Associations Respect[ing] the Past": Enlightenment and Romantic Historicism 57
Anthony Jarrells
4 Nationalisms in Romantic Britain and Ireland: Culture, Politics, and the Global 77
Miranda Burgess
5 "With an Industry Incredible": Politics, Writing, and the Public Sphere 99
Paul Keen
6 Romantic Justice: Law, Literature, and Individuality 119
Mark Schoenfield
7 Natural History in the Romantic Period 141
Noah Heringman
8 Romantic Sciences: British and Continental Thresholds 168
Frederick Burwick
9 Consumer Culture: Getting and Spending in the Romantic Age 189
Nicholas Mason
10 The Romantic-Era Book Trade 212
Lee Erickson
11 Visual Pleasures, Visionary States: Art, Entertainment, and the Nation 232
Gillen D'Arcy Wood
12 What's at Stake? Kantian Aesthetics, Romantic and Modern Poetics, Sociopolitical Commitment 257
Robert Kaufman
Index 283
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Jon Klancher
1 Transfiguring God: Religion, Revolution, Romanticism 14
Robert M. Maniquis
2 Romanticism and Empire 36
Saree Makdisi
3 "Associations Respect[ing] the Past": Enlightenment and Romantic Historicism 57
Anthony Jarrells
4 Nationalisms in Romantic Britain and Ireland: Culture, Politics, and the Global 77
Miranda Burgess
5 "With an Industry Incredible": Politics, Writing, and the Public Sphere 99
Paul Keen
6 Romantic Justice: Law, Literature, and Individuality 119
Mark Schoenfield
7 Natural History in the Romantic Period 141
Noah Heringman
8 Romantic Sciences: British and Continental Thresholds 168
Frederick Burwick
9 Consumer Culture: Getting and Spending in the Romantic Age 189
Nicholas Mason
10 The Romantic-Era Book Trade 212
Lee Erickson
11 Visual Pleasures, Visionary States: Art, Entertainment, and the Nation 232
Gillen D'Arcy Wood
12 What's at Stake? Kantian Aesthetics, Romantic and Modern Poetics, Sociopolitical Commitment 257
Robert Kaufman
Index 283