That the Romantic movement was an international phenomenon is a
commonplace, yet to date, historical study of the movement has
tended to focus primarily on its national manifestations. This
volume offers a new perspective. In thirteen chapters devoted to
artists and writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries, leading scholars of the period examine the international
exchanges that were crucial for the rise of Romanticism in England
and the United States. In the book's introduction, Andrew
Hemingway-building on the theoretical work of Michael Lowy and
Robert Sayre-proposes that we need to remobilize the concept of
Weltanschauung, or comprehensive world view, in order to develop
the kind of synthetic history of arts and ideas the phenomenon of
Romanticism demands. The essays that follow focus on the London and
New York art worlds and such key figures as Benjamin West, Thomas
Bewick, John Vanderlyn, Washington Allston, John Martin, J. M. W.
Turner, Thomas Cole, James Fenimore Cooper, George Catlin, Edgar
Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Herman Melville. Taken
together, these essays plot the rise of a romantic anti-capitalist
Weltanschauung as well as the dialectic between Romanticism's
national and international manifestations. In addition to the
volume editors, contributors include Matthew Beaumont, David
Bindman, Leo Costello, Nicholas Grindle, Wayne Franklin, Janet
Koenig, William Pressly, Robert Sayre, William Truettner, Dell
Upton, and William Vaughan.
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