PEER, Larry H. (dir.), On Theorizing Romanticism and Other Essays on the State of Scholarship Today, Lewiston / Ceredigion, Mellen Press, 2008, 308 p.
ISBN 978-0-7734-4989-3
RÉSUMÉ
An updated view of the relationship between the European Romanticmovement and contemporary theory. The contributors want to redirectstudies in Romanticism towards cultural and literary theory.
TABLE DES MATIÈRES
Commendatory Foreword - Prof. Eugene Stelzig
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: On Theorizing Romanticism Again – Dr. Larry H. Peer
Romanticism as Cognitive Process – Prof. Frederick L. Burwick
Romanticism Through Complex Theory – Prof. Rodney Farnsworth
Disrupted Teleology and the Progression of Wordsworth's 1850 Prelude – Prof. Lorne Mook
The Painted Body as Object – Prof. Christopher Clason
Fidelio Meets The Water-Carrier: Translating Heroic Images into Sound – Prof. Carol Padgham Albrecht
The “Inconsistent Politics” of Mary Mitford's Rienzi – Prof. Daniel Schierenbeck
The Sick Rose, That Romantic Thing of Beauty: Resisting Blakes's Poetics of Annihilation – Prof. Lloyd Davies
The Cosmopolitan Pleasures (and Perils) of Sensibility – Prof. Christopher Nagle
Positive Ambiguity: The Case of Keats – Prof. Richard Nanian
Revising Romantic Orientalism: Hamilton's Translations of a Hindu Rajah – Prof. Jeff Cass
Mary Shelley and the End of Romanticism – Prof. Orianne Smith
Romanticism and Poetic Closure: The Case of Hölderlin – Prof. Richard Eldridge