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Realpoetik - European Romanticism and Literary Politics (Hardcover)
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Realpoetik - European Romanticism and Literary Politics (Hardcover)
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Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian
Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British
Romanticism. The principle of selection is to choose writers whose
use of fiction is realistic - not realist, but fundamentally
contributory to the purposes of non-fictional discourse. The
political resonance audible when we put Real at the start of a
compound noun is also true to the period looked at. At that time,
positive political institutions were recovering from their upending
in the French Revolution and their strategic re-shaping in the
period of Restoration after Napoleon. In this volume, Paul Hamilton
pinpoints a moment when the political imagination was actually
creative of political reality. It is a long gloss on Friedrich
Meinecke's description of the early Romantic period in Germany as
'that past era of teeming intellectual impulses with its excess of
non-political political ideals', but Hamilton finds his insight
into the contemporary inextricability of the ideal and the
political true of France and Italy. Before the existence of a
unified Germany or Italy, and in the new France after Napoleon,
there was an opportunity and a necessity to imagine the kind of
nation which would be desirable. Realpoetik examines the extent to
which this illuminates the fiction and philosophy of Friedrich
Schlegel, Madame de Stael, Giacomo Leopardi and others. It also
reflects on current dissatisfaction with existing political
arrangements and our contemporary desire to re-imagine a new, more
representative politics.
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