Romanticism And The City (nineteenth-century Major Lives And Letters)

Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broad theoretical issues in European Romanticism at large. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii The Infernal and Celestial City of Romanticism....Pages 1-5 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 Nerve Theory, Sensibility, and Romantic Metrosexuals....Pages 9-23 Wordsworth’s Double-Take....Pages 25-41 John Galt, Happy Colonialist: The Case of “The Apostate; or, Atlantis Destroyed”....Pages 43-53 The Gothic Chapbook and the Urban Reader....Pages 55-72 Romantic Science and the City....Pages 73-84 Front Matter....Pages 85-85 Phenomenal Beauty: Rousseau in Venice....Pages 87-104 E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Marketplace Vision of Berlin....Pages 105-134 Renzo in Milan....Pages 135-155 Rome Above Rome: Nikolai Gogol’s Romantic Vision of the Eternal City....Pages 157-178 Front Matter....Pages 179-179 Wordsworth’s Invigorating Hell: London in Book 7 of the Prelude (1805)....Pages 181-195 Blake’s Golgonoosa: London and/as the Eternal City of Art....Pages 197-207 London’s Immortal Druggists: Pharmaceutical Science and Business in Romanticism....Pages 209-222 Wordsworth’s “Illustrated Books and Newspapers” and Media of the City....Pages 223-240 Babylon and Jerusalem on the Old Kent Road....Pages 241-259 Back Matter....Pages 261-283 This text explores how late 18th and early 19th century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broad theoretical issues in European Romanticism at large Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broader theoretical issues.