The volume explores the interrelated topics of transnational
identity in all its ambiguity and complexity, and the new ways of
imagining community or Gemeinschaft (as distinct from society or
Gesellschaft)) that this broader climate made possible in the
Romantic period. The period crystallized, even if it did not
inaugurate, an unprecedented interest in travel and exploration, as
well as in the dissemination of the knowledge thus acquired through
print media and learned societies. This dissemination expanded but
also unmoored both epistemic and national boundaries. It thus led
to what Antoine Berman in his study of translation tellingly calls
?the experience of the foreign, ? as a zone of differences between
and within selves, of which translation was the material expression
and symptom. As several essays in the collection suggest, it is
this mental travel that distinguishes the Romantic probing of
transitional zones from that of earlier periods when travel and
exploration were more purely under the sign of trade and commerce
and thus of appropriation and colonization. The renegotiation of
national and cultural boundaries also raises the question of what
kinds of community are possible in this environment. A group of
essays therefore explores the period's alternative communities, and
the ways in which it tested the limits of the very concept of
community. Finally, the volume also explores the interrelationship
between notions of identity and community by turning to Romantic
theatre. Concentrating on the stage as monitor and mirror of
contemporary ideological developments, a dedicated section of this
book looks at the evolution of the tragic in European Romanticisms
and how its inherent conflicts became vehicles for contrasting
representations of individual and communal identities.
This book was published as a special issue of European Romantic
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