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Book SynopsisMoving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially poetic development, this title strives to strengthen a critical awareness of the genres, historical institutions, and material practices that comprised the culture of the period. It focuses on six decades ranging from 1780 to 1832.
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Lessons of Romanticism offers new, creative, and stimulating material, both on the more localized front of the subject matter of the individual essays and more broadly on the wide, diverse, intertextual and intercultural landscape of Romantic studies generally. Every essay takes its subject in new directions.”—Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
“A richly rewarding and important body of work. This wide-ranging volume brings together the sophisticated and differing voices of contemporary critics as they seek to recover the densely particularized cultural work of Romanticism.”—Jeffrey N. Cox, Texas A&M University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction: Reading beyond Redemption: Historicism, Irony, and the Lessons of Romanticism / Thomas Pfau 1
Varieties of Bildung in European Romanticism and Beyond
Romanticism, Bildung, and the Literary Absolute / Marc Redfield 41
The Inhibitions of Democracy on Romantic Political Thought: Thoreau's Democratic Individualism / Nancy L. Rosenblum 55
Between Irony and Radicalism: The Other Way of a Romantic Education / Karen A. Weisman 76
Friendly Instruction: Coleridge and the Discipline of Sociology / Regina Hewitt 89
Keats and the Aesthetics of Critical Knowledge; or, The Ideology of Studying Romanticism at the Present Time / David S. Ferris 103
Reading Habits: Scenes of Romantic Miseducation and the Challenge of Eco-Literacy / Marlon B. Ross 126
Postmodernism, Romanticism, and John Clare / Theresa M. Kelley 157
Images and Institutions of Cultural Literacy in Romanticism
The Lessons of Swedenborg; or, The Origin of William Blake's
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell / Joseph Viscomi 173
Coleridge's Lessons in Translation: The "Logic" of the "Wildest Odes" / H.J. Jackson 213
Some Romantic Images in Beethoven / Maynard Solomon 225
"Lorenzo's" Liverpool and "Corinne's" Coppet: The Italianate Salon and Romantic Education / Nanora Sweet 244
Liberty, Connection, and Tyranny: The Novels of Jane Austen and the Aesthetic Movement of the Picturesque / Jill Heydt-Stevenson 261
The Royal Academy and the Annual Exhibition of the Viewing Public / C.S. Matheson 280
Romantic Psychoanalysis: Keats, Identity, and "(The Fall of) Hyperion" / Joel Faflak 304
"Their terrors came upon me tenfold": Literacy and Ghosts in John Clare's
Autobiography / Richard G. Swartz 328
Gender, Sexuality, and the (Un)Romantic Canon
A Lesson in Romanticism: Gendering the Soul / Susan J. Wolfson 349
What Happens When Jane Austen and Frances Burney Enter the Romantic Canon? / William Galperin 376
Domesticating Gothic: Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, and National Romance / Miranda J. Burgess 392
Learning What Hurts: Romanticism, Pedagogy, Violence / Adela Pinch 413
Reforming Byron's Narcissism / Steven Bruhm 429
"This Horrid Theatre of Human Sufferings": Gendering the Stages of History in Catharine Macaulay and Percy Bysshe Shelly / Greg Kucich 448
Contributors 467
Index 471
