Essai
Nouvelle parution
P. Hamilton (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

P. Hamilton (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

Publié le par Marc Escola (Source : Jean-Marie Roulin)

The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism, Edited by Paul Hamilton

Oxford University Press, 2016, 864 p. - ISBN: 9780199696383

 

The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism focuses on the period beginning with the French Revolution and extending to the uprisings of 1848 across Europe. It brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The volume begins with a series of chapters examining key texts written by major writers in languages including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Greek, and Polish amongst others. Then follows a second section based on the naturally inter-disciplinary quality of Romanticism, encapsulated by the different discourses with which writers of the time, set up an internal comparative dynamic. These chapters highlight the sense a discourse gives of being written knowledgeably against other pretenders to completeness or comprehensiveness of understanding, and the Enlightenment encyclopaedic project. Discourses typically push their individual claims to resume European culture, collaborating and trying to assimilate each other in the process. The main examples featuring here are history, geography, drama, theology, language, geography, philosophy, political theory, the sciences, and the media. Each chapter offers original and individual interpretation of individual aspects of an inherently comparative world of individual writers and the discursive idioms to which they are historically subject. Together the forty-one chapters provide a comprehensive and unique overview of European Romanticism.

 

Table of Contents

Paul Hamilton: Introduction
1: Caroline Warman: Pre-Romantic French Thought
2: Biancamaria Fontana: Literary History and Political Theory in Germaine de Staël's idea of Europe
3: Jean-Marie Roulin: François-René de Chateaubriand: Migrations and Revolution
4: Francesco Manzini: Stendhal
5: Bradley Stephens: The Novel and the (Il)Legibility of History: Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, and Alexandre Dumas
6: Sotirios Paraschas: Romantic Drama: The Mask of Genius
7: Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe: French Romantic Poetry
8: Francesco Manzini: Frenetic Romanticism
9: Alexander Regier: Johann Georg Hamann: Metacritique and Poesis in Counter-Enlightenment
10: Andrew Bowie: Freedom, Reason, and Art in Idealist and Romantic Philosophy
11: William Arctander O'Brien: Friedrich von Hardenberg (pseudonym: Novalis)
12: Maike Oergel: Jena 1789-1819: Ideas, Poetry, and Politics
13: Astrid Weigert: Gender and Genre in the Works of German Romantic Women Writers
14: Tim Mehigan: The Scepticism of Heinrich von Kleist
15: Rüdiger Görner: Friedrich Hölderlin's Romantic Classicism
16: Angus Nicholls: Goethe the Writer
17: Stefan Uhlig: Goethe's Figurative Method
18: Dennis Mahoney: Heidelberg, Dresden, Berlin, Vienna
19: Richard Aczel: Hungarian Romanticism: Re-Imagining (Literary) History
20: Joseph Luzzi: The Task of Italian Romanticism: Literary Form and Polemical Response
21: Michael Caesar: Voice, speaking, silence in Leopardi's verse
22: Franco D'Intino: Leopardi as a writer of prose
23: Giuseppe Gazzola: 'European Man and Writer': Romanticism, the Classics, and Political Action in the Exemplary Life of Ugo Foscolo.
24: Jonathan White: Manzoni's Persistence
25: Derek Flitter: Personal Demons and the Spectre of Tradition in Spanish Romantic Drama
26: Andrew Kahn: Russian Literature Between Classicism and Romanticism: Poetry, Feeling, Subjectivity
27: Luba Golburt: Alexander Pushkin as a Romantic
28: Katya Hokanson: The Geography of Russian Romantic Prose: Bestuzhev, Lermontov, Gogol and Early Dostoevsky
29: Monika Coghen: Polish Romanticism
30: Klaus Müller-Wille: Scandinavian Romanticism
31: Rodney Beaton: The Romantic construction of Greece
32: Roberto Dainotto: Geographies of Historical Discourse
33: Paul Stock: Histories of Geography
34: Douglas Moggach: Romantic Political Thought
35: Benjamin Dawson: Science and the Scientific Disciplines
36: Leon Chai: Life and Death in Paris: Medical and Life Sciences in the Romantic Era
37: Thomas Pfau: Religion
38: Diego Saglia: Theatre, Drama and Vision in the Romantic Age: Stages of the New
39: Angela Esterhammer: Identity Crises: Celebrity, Anonymity, Doubles, and Frauds in European Romanticism
40: Jan Fellerer: Theories of Language
41: Patrick Vincent: Europe's Discourse of Britain