Exorbitant Enlightenment: Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations

ISBN-13: 9780198827122 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 272 str.

Alexander Regier

Recenzje

Regier's first-order discovery of Anglo-German circuits of thought about language, religion, sexuality, nature, and social formation reveals an elaborate information highway. One of the many triumphs of this study is that it expands our field of vision even as it sharpens the focus on key practices within that field. With remarkable clarity, economy, and narrative brio, Exorbitant Enlightenment tells a truly gripping story about the most difficult artists and thinkers of the age. Like a high tide that floats all boats, Regier's contribution raises up for new appraisal the many writers we thought we had understood. Readers will close this book and say to themselves, all is changed, changed utterly.

O autorze

Alexander Regier is Associate Professor of English at Rice University and editor of the scholarly journal SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. He is the author of Fracture and Fragmentation in British Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2010), the co-editor of Wordsworth's Poetic Theory: Knowledge, Language, Experience (Palgrave, 2010), and has edited special journal issues on "Mobilities" and "Genealogies". Dr Regier has published widely on William Blake, Johann Georg Hamann, William Wordsworth, Walter Benjamin, ruins, contemporary poetry, and the aesthetics of sport. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.