Orientation in European Romanticism: The Art of Falling Upwards

ISBN-13: 9781009268233 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 278 str.

Paul (Queen Mary University of London) Hamilton

Opis

This book frames Romanticism as the epicentre of modern Europe's fascination with orientation and disorientation in literature and politics.

Spis treści

Part I. Disorientating Kant: 1. Introduction: sublimity and abjection; 2. Kleist and the Kant-crisis; 3. Hölderlin and the philosophers; Part II. The Uses of Abjection: 4. The feminist humanism of Felicia Hemans: the poetics of Records of Woman (1828); 5. Thomas Moore and the national lyric; 6. Ugo Foscolo's literary hypocrisy; Part III. Optimism and Pessimism: 7. Balzac's comic pessimism; 8. George Sand's optimism; Part IV. Romancing the Modern: 9. Retrospect: Rilke translates Leopardi.