Romantic <i>Weltliteratur</i> of the Western World

Romantic Weltliteratur of the Western World is a collection of essays that examine Romantic literature and art from Europe and America. Since Goethe coined the concept of Weltliteratur , scholarly interest in comparative, global, and transnational literary and cultural studies has only continued to grow. Intended to complement existing scholarship, the essays in this volume offer a variety of critical approaches to Romantic literature and explore the dialogic component of different literary works as well as their transnational intertextualities. Cover Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgment Introduction (Agnieszka Gutthy) Section One: Poetic Inspirations 1. The Romantic “I”: Italy and India in Letitia Landon’s Transnational Texts (Debnita Chakravarti) 2. Robert Southey’s “Orientaliana” in Thalaba, the Destroyer (Md. Monirul Islam) Section Two: Poetry, Spirituality, and Art 3. Seeker Spirituality and the American Blake (Jade Hagan) Section Three: Transnational Romantics 4. Adam Mickiewicz and The Books of the Polish Nation and of the Polish Pilgrimage: Transnational Expression of Polish Messianism in Romanticism (Fernando Presa González) 5. Margaret Fuller and Adam Mickiewicz (Agnieszka Gutthy) Section Four: Romantic Translations 6. Illusions of Certainty: Reconsidering the 1821 Anonymous Translation of Goethe’s Faustus (Carrie Busby) 7. El principe constante / Książę niezłomny: From Spanish Baroque to Polish Romanticism (Agnieszka Gutthy) Section Five: Romantic Novel 8. The Imprint of Walter Scott on the Historical Perspective of Aleksander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoevsky (Mabel Greta Velis Blinova) 9. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Olaf Stapledon’s Sirius (Iren Boyarkina) Section Six: Romanticism and Beyond 10. A Source Study of “The Nightingale and the Rose” (1888) by Oscar Wilde, With Special Reference to “Les sept cordes de la lyre” (The Seven Strings of the Lyre) (1838) by George Sand (Akemi Yoshida) 11. Loss of Weltliteratur: Contextualizing Goethe’s Weltliteratur in the 21st Century (Kimaya Thakur) Contributors Biographies Index of Poets and Writers List of Illustrations - Acknowledgment - Agnieszka Gutthy: Introduction - Debnita Chakravarti: The Romantic "I": Italy and India in Letitia Landon's Transnational Texts - Md. Monirul Islam: Robert Southey's "Orientaliana" in Thalaba, the Destroyer - Jade Hagan: Seeker Spirituality and the American Blake - Fernando Presa González: Adam Mickiewicz and The Books of the Polish Nation and of the Polish Pilgrimage: Transnational Expression of Polish Messianism in Romanticism - Agnieszka Gutthy: Margaret Fuller and Adam Mickiewicz - Carrie Busby: Illusions of Certainty: Reconsidering the 1821 Anonymous Translation of Goethe's Faustus - Agnieszka Gutthy: El principe constante / Książę niezłomny: From Spanish Baroque to Polish Romanticism - Mabel Greta Velis Blinova: The Imprint of Walter Scott on the Historical Perspective of Aleksander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoevsky - Iren Boyarkina: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Olaf Stapledon's Sirius - Akemi Yoshida: A Source Study of "The Nightingale and the Rose" (1888) by Oscar Wilde, With Special Reference to "Les sept cordes de la lyre" (The Seven Strings of the Lyre) (1838) by George Sand - Kima ya Thakur: Loss of Weltliteratur: Contextualizing Goethe's Weltliteratur in the 21st Century - Contributors Biographies - Index of Poets and Writers "The book is a collection of essays that examine Romantic literature and art from Europe and America. Ever since Goethe coined the concept of Weltliteratur, the researchers' interest in comparative, global, and transnational literary and cultural studies has been growing. Intending to complement the existing scholarship, the essays in this volume offer a variety of critical approaches to Romantic literature and explore the dialogic component of different literary works as well as their transnational intertextualities"-- Provided by publisher Intended to complement existing scholarship, the essays in Romantic Weltliteratur of the Western World offer a variety of critical approaches to Romantic literature and explore the dialogic component of different literary works as well as their transnational intertextualities.