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Book SynopsisRomantic Dialectics: Culture, Gender, Theater aims to emphasize the importance of collaboration and exchange in the exploration of neglected areas of Romanticism. The essays grouped in this volume, moreover, are themselves inherently dialectical, being built on, and shaped by, the underlying tension between competing and even at times opposing literary, social and political elements. The three sections of the volume include: Culture and international relations; Aspects of female-oriented aesthetics; and Theatre and drama of the Romantic period. These three topics well reflect the diversified areas of the research and teaching of Professor Lilla Maria Crisafulli, to whom this volume is dedicated. This collection also eloquently illustrates how current research in Romanticism, carried out by scholars from a number of different countries and schools, is nevertheless united by a shared dialectical engagement in generating and debating new approaches to this extremely rich intellectual field.
Table of ContentsKeir Elam: Foreword: On the Dialectics of Literature and Life – Serena Baiesi/Stuart Curran: Introduction – Part I: Cultural Dialectics – Stuart Curran: Byron and Shelley: Becoming Italian – Jeffrey N. Cox: «For I will Teach [. . .] the Stones / To Rise against Earth’s Tyrants»: Moving Beyond War in Byron’s «War Cantos» – Peter Vassallo: Romantic Fabrications of Napoleon – Elena Spandri: Between Culture Shock and Franciscan Ecology: Wordsworth’s Last Encounter with Italy – Nora Crook: «That Crabbed German»: Mary Shelley’s Germanizing – Greg Kucich: The Place of Keats’s Endymion in Times of Peril and among «Blear-Eyed Nations» – Part II: Dialectics of Gender – Gioia Angeletti: Outside the Love of Men: The Ladies of Llangollen, Anna Seward and Female Friendship – Carlotta Farese: Reading for Agency: The Literary Bildung of Fanny Price – Serena Baiesi: «I Will Tell my Story, and my Reader Shall Judge for Me»: Mary Shelley’s Stories for The Keepsake – Part III: Dialectical Theatrical Modes – Catherine Burroughs: Women and Closet Drama – Michael Gamer: «And the Explosion Immediately Takes Place»: Romantic Tragedy and the End(s) of Melodrama – Franca Dellarosa: Translating Spaces: The Case of Paul and Virginia – Diego Saglia: Staging Strangeness in Charles Robert Maturin’s Bertram – Notes on Contributors – Index
