The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

Edited by Paul Hamilton

Oxford Handbooks

Forty-one original essays from a leading team of international scholars provide a comprehensive guide to beginning or continuing study of European Romanticism
Chapters focusing on the work of key writers from across Europe enable comparisons between different languages and cultures
Brings together scholars with a wide range of disciplinary approaches to provide an inter-disciplinary overview of the field
Contextualises the work of key writers amongst the key historical and political developments of the period

The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

Edited by Paul Hamilton

Description

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.

The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

Edited by Paul Hamilton

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

The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

Edited by Paul Hamilton

Oxford Handbooks

Author Information

Paul Hamilton read English and Philosophy at Glasgow University. He took a D.Phil. at Oxford University, where he was a Junior Research Fellow, and then College Lecturer at Balliol College. Following posts at the University of Nottingham, Exeter College, Oxford, and the University of Southampton, he became Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London in 1996. Hamilton is the author of Metaromanticism, Coleridge and German Philosophy, and Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics.

Contributors:

Richard Aczel
Roderick Beaton
Andrew Bowie
Michael Caesar
Leon Chai
Monika Coghen
Roberto Dainotto
Benjamin Dawson
Franco D'Intino
Angela Esterhammer
Jan Fellerer
Derek Flitter
Biancamaria Fontana
Giuseppe Gazzola
Luba Golburt
Rüdiger Görner
Paul Hamilton
Katya Hokanson
Andrew Kahn
Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe
Joseph Luzzi
Dennis F. Mahoney
Francesco Manzini
Tim Mehigan
Douglas Moggach
Angus Nicholls
Wm. Arctander O'Brien
Maike Oergel
Sotirios Paraschas
Thomas Pfau
Alexander Regier
Jean-Marie Roulin
Diego Saglia
Bradley Stephens
Paul Stock
Stefan Uhlig
Patrick Vincent
Caroline Warman
Astrid Weigert
Jonathan White

The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

Edited by Paul Hamilton

Oxford Handbooks

Reviews and Awards

"The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism is a splendid volume that fills a need. ... This rigorous survey of the broad European movement of Romanticism is thus a welcome reference counterpoint to what currently exists for students and researchers. Hamilton made the deft editorial decision to divide the handbook into two sections: "Languages" and "Discourses." Considering the topic by language does justice to the critical and creative communities that saw themselves as such while avoiding the anachronistic awkwardness of referring to nations or states that did not or no longer exist. This division also allows the volume to strike a nice balance between topics one would expect and topics that are refreshingly innovative ("Discourses"). ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." --S. Barnett, CHOICE