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British Romanticism in European Perspective

Into the Eurozone

  • Steve Clark
  • Tristanne Connolly
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Into the Eurozone: European Dimensions of British Romanticism, Then and Now
    Steve Clark, Tristanne Connolly
    Pages 1-25
  3. The Genealogy of the Scientific Sublime: Glaciers, Mountains and the Alternating Modes of Representation
    Kaz Oishi
    Pages 26-44
  4. ‘Et in Arcadia Ego’: Philosophical Aesthetics and the Origins of European Romanticism in Shaftesbury’s Characteristics and Rousseau’s Reveries
    Evy Varsamopoulou
    Pages 45-68
  5. Cross-channel Discourses of Sensibility: Madeleine de Scudéry’s Clélie and Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote
    Kimiyo Ogawa
    Pages 69-88
  6. ‘Amphibious Grown’: Hester Thrale, Della Crusca and the Italian Origins of British Romanticism
    Steve Clark
    Pages 89-112
  7. L’Exception Anglaise: Joseph Priestley Abroad and Romantic Poetics
    Stephen Bygrave
    Pages 113-132
  8. ‘Mistaken for Natives of the Soil’: Translation and Erasmus Darwin’s Loves of the Plants
    Tristanne Connolly
    Pages 133-154
  9. Family, Marriage and the State in Romanticism’s Other Genres
    David Shakespeare
    Pages 155-173
  10. ‘What means this wild, this allegorick Mask?’: British Anticipations of Romantic Opera c. 1740
    David Chandler
    Pages 174-192
  11. Blake and the European (Pre) History of Melodrama: Beyond the Borders of Time and Stage
    Diane Piccitto
    Pages 193-209
  12. From the English to the French Revolution: The Body, the World and Experience in Locke’s Essay, Bentley’s ‘A Prospect of Vapourland’ and Blake’s Songs
    Peter Otto
    Pages 210-229
  13. ‘Some roads unfold before us / Without a beaten track’: Unearthing Bosnia’s Romantic Spirit through the Hasanaginica and Mak Dizdar’s Stone Sleeper
    Maja Pašović
    Pages 230-247
  14. Back Matter
    Pages 248-286
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About this book

Introduction

What, and when, is British Romanticism, if seen not in island isolation but cosmopolitan integration with European Romantic literature, history and culture? The essays here range from poetry and the novel to science writing, philosophy, visual art, opera and melodrama; from France and Germany to Italy and Bosnia.

Keywords

British Romanticism European Romanticism nationalism internationalism Romantic periodization aesthetics culture drama English literature Europe Germany history of literature Italy novel poetry Romanticism time William Blake William Shakespeare

Editors and affiliations

  • Steve Clark
    • 1
  • Tristanne Connolly
    • 2
  1. 1.University of TokyoJapan
  2. 2.St Jerome’s UniversityCanada

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