Though traditionally defined as a relatively brief time period -
typically the half century of 1780-1830 - the "Romantic era"
constitutes a crucial, indeed unique, transitional phase in what
has come to be called "modernity," for it was during these fifty
years that myriad disciplinary, aesthetic, economic, and political
changes long in the making accelerated dramatically. Due in part to
the increased velocity of change, though, most of modernity's
essential master-tropes - such as secularization, instrumental
reason, individual rights, economic self-interest, emancipation,
system, institution, nation, empire, utopia, and "life" - were also
subjected to incisive critical and methodological reflection and
revaluation. The chapters in this collection argue that
Romanticism's marked ambivalence and resistance to decisive
conceptualization arises precisely from the fact that Romantic
authors simultaneously extended the project of European modernity
while offering Romantic concepts as means for a sustained critical
reflection on that very process. Focusing especially on the topics
of form (both literary and organic), secularization (and its
political correlates, utopia and apocalypse), and the question of
how one narrates the arrival of modernity, this collection
collectively emphasizes the importance of understanding modernity
through the lens of Romanticism, rather than simply understanding
Romanticism as part of modernity. This book was previously
published as a special issue of European Romantic Review.
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