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

TThe Oxford Handbook to European Romanticism brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The book focuses on the cultural history of the period extending from the French Revolution to the uprisings of 1848. It 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. A second section then explores the naturally inter-disciplinary quality of Romanticism, exemplified 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 self-understanding of the time. Discourses typically advance their own claims to resume European culture, collaborating with and at the same time trying to assimilate each other in the process. The main examples featured here are: history; geography; drama; theology; language; philosophy; political theory; the sciences; and the media. Each chapter offers an original and individual interpretation 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 provocative 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, Professor of English, Queen Mary, University of London

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 (University of Chicago Press, 2003), Coleridge and German Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2007), and Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics (OUP,2013).

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
Rudiger Gorner
Paul Hamilton
Katya Hokanson
Andrew Kahn
Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe
Joseph Luzzi
Dennis F. Mahoney
Francesco Manzini
Tim Mehigan
Douglas Moggach
Klaus Muller-Wille
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

"This volume shows how Romanticism can still teach us to read and see. It breathes enthusiasm and scholarly care in a way that appeals to a wide range of readers. The choice of contributors is harmonious and refreshing. Containing useful, reader-friendly features such as suggestions for further reading, this clear and engaging Handbook is an invaluable resource for anyone who intends to study and research the complexity and diversity of the Romantic period, as well as the historical conditions that produced it -- thereby appealing to a genuinely interdisciplinary audience." -- Carmen Casaliggi, Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840