Moving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially
poetic development, "Lessons of Romanticism" strives to strengthen
a critical awareness of the genres, historical institutions, and
material practices that comprised the culture of the period. This
anthology--in recasting Romanticism in its broader cultural
context--ranges across literary studies, art history, musicology,
and political science and combines a variety of critical
approaches, including gender studies, Lacanian analysis, and
postcolonial studies.
With over twenty essays on such diverse topics as the aesthetic and
pedagogical purposes of art exhibits in London, the materiality of
late Romantic salon culture, the extracanonical status of Jane
Austen and Fanny Burney, and Romantic imagery in Beethoven's music
and letters, "Lessons of Romanticism" reveals the practices that
were at the heart of European Romantic life. Focusing on the six
decades from 1780 to 1832, this collection is arranged thematically
around gender and genre, literacy, marginalization, canonmaking,
and nationalist ideology. As Americanists join with specialists in
German culture, as Austen is explored beside Beethoven, and as
discussions on newly recovered women's writings follow fresh
discoveries in long-canonized texts, these interdisciplinary essays
not only reflect the broad reach of contemporary scholarship but
also point to the long-neglected intertextual and intercultural
dynamics in the various and changing faces of Romanticism itself.
"Contributors." Steven Bruhm, Miranda J. Burgess, Joel Faflak,
David S. Ferris, William Galperin, Regina Hewitt, Jill
Heydt-Stevenson, H. J. Jackson, Theresa M. Kelley, Greg Kucich, C.
S. Matheson, Adela Pinch, Marc Redfield, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Marlon
B. Ross, Maynard Solomon, Richard G. Swartz, Nanora Sweet, Joseph
Viscomi, Karen A. Weisman, Susan I. Wolfson
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