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Nonfictional Romantic Prose : Expanding borders

Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding Borders surveys a broad range of expository, polemical, and analytical literary forms that came into prominence during the last two decades of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth. They stand in contrast to better-known romantic fiction in that they endeavor to address the world of daily, empirical experience rather than that of more explicitly self-referential, fanciful creation. Among them are genres that have since the nineteenth century come to characterize many aspects of modern life like the periodical or the psycholog
eBook, English, 2004
John Benjamins Publishing Company, Philadelphia, 2004
1 online resource (485 pages)
9789027295651, 9027295654
1052552085
NONFICTIONAL ROMANTIC PROSE
A COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF LITERATURES IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
Title page
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Table of contents
Preface
I. General Introduction
II. Romantic Theoretical and Critical Writing
Theories of Romanticism
References
Notes
Romantic Disavowals of Romanticism
Notes
References
Hegel and Hegelianism in European Romanticism
Notes
References
The Aesthetics of German Idealism and Its Reception in European Romanticism
Notes
References
Romantic Theories of National Literature and Language. Notes
References
Sir Walter Scott and the Beginnings of Ethnology
References
III. Expansions in Time
Distorted Echoes
Notes
References
Burke's Conservatism and Its Echoes
Notes
References
IV. Expansions in Space
Romantic Travel Narratives
Notes
References
Romanticism and Nonfictional Prose in Spanish America
Notes
References
V. Expansions of the Self
Allegories of Address
Notes
References
The Romantic Subject in Autobiography
Notes
References
Educating for Women's Future
Notes
References
VI. Generic Expansions. Costumbrismo in Spanish Literature and its European Analogues
Notes
References
The Romantic Pamphlet
Notes
References
Almanacs and Romantic Non-fictional Prose
Notes
References
The Unending Conversation
Notes
References
The Romantic Familiar Essay
References
VII. Intersections: Scientific and Artistic Discourses in the Romantic Age
Aspects of German Romantic Musical Discourse
Notes
References
Romantic Discourse on the Visual Arts
Notes
References
Literary Sources of Romantic Psychology
Notes
References. Romanticism, the Unconscious, and the Brain
Notes
References
VIII. Intimations of Transcendence
The Myth of the Fallen Angel
Acknowledgments
Notes
Sacrality as Aesthetic in the Early Nineteenth Century
Notes
References
IX. Conclusion
Index