The Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature

This wide-ranging new history of European Romantic Literature presents a pan-European phenomenon which transcended national borders and contributed to a new sense of European cultural identity across the continent. Conceived in the same spirit as Madame de Staël's cultural and political agenda at a time when her 'generous idea' of Europe is being challenged on all sides, the volume pays close attention to the period's circulation of people, ideas, and texts. It proposes to rethink the period comparatively, focusing on various forms of cultural mediation and transfer, and on productive tensions, synchronicities, and interactions within and across borders. Organized chronologically, its twenty chapters address over five hundred works, proposing a coherent historical narrative without completely erasing individual nations' specificities. By showcasing in particular the place of Britain within continental culture, the volume hopes to reactivate critical examinations of Romanticism from a historicised European perspective. 03.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page 04.0_pp_v_vii_Contents 05.0_pp_viii_x_Contributors 06.0_pp_xi_xi_Acknowledgements 07.0_pp_xii_xii_Note_on_the_Text 08.0_pp_xiii_xxx_Chronology 09.0_pp_1_38_Introduction 10.0_pp_39_220_Romantic_Genealogies_17501790 10.1_pp_41_72_The_Discovery_of_the_Past 10.2_pp_73_104_Discourses_of_Nature 10.3_pp_105_134_The_Romantic_Sublime 10.4_pp_135_161_Cultures_of_Sensibility 10.5_pp_162_187_Gothic_Circulations 10.6_pp_188_220_The_Crisis_of_Enlightenment 11.0_pp_221_432_Revolution_to_Restoration_17901815 11.1_pp_223_254_Transcendental_Revolutions 11.2_pp_255_283_Citizens_of_the_World 11.3_pp_284_318_Romantic_Loss_Emigration_and_Exile 11.4_pp_319_351_Women_Writers_Networks 11.5_pp_352_374_Romantic_Nationalisms 11.6_pp_375_400_Shakespeare_and_Romantic_Drama 11.7_pp_401_432_Classics_and_Romantics 12.0_pp_433_609_Restoration_to_Revolution_18151850 12.1_pp_435_457_The_Restoration_of_the_Restoration 12.2_pp_458_486_Late_Romanticism_and_Print_Culture 12.3_pp_487_515_Global_Romanticisms 12.4_pp_516_548_No_Longer_at_Ease 12.5_pp_549_573_Literatures_of_the_North 12.6_pp_574_609_Russian_Empire_and_the_Territories_of_Romanticism 13.0_pp_610_623_Further_Reading 14.0_pp_624_656_Index "Presenting European Romanticism as a phenomenon that superseded national borders, and in which Britain played a vital role, this Cambridge History illuminates myriad forms of cultural mediation and transfer, and reveals the period's productive tensions, synchronicities, and interactions within and across borders"-- Provided by publisher