Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 100)

In this important and innovative study Jon Klancher shows how the Romantic age produced a new discourse of the "Arts and Sciences" by reconfiguring the Enlightenment's idea of knowledge and by creating new kinds of cultural institutions with unprecedented public impact. ... Taking a historical and cross-disciplinary approach, he opens up Romantic literary and critical writing to transformations in the history of science, history of the book, art history, and the little-known history of arts-and-sciences administration that linked early modern projects to nineteenth- and twentieth-cnetury modes of organizing "knowledges." His conclusions transformthe ways we think about knowledge, both in the Romantic period and in our own. -- Cover. 9781107029101 Contents 9 Tables 10 Acknowledgements 11 Introduction 13 Romanticism and the contingency of institutions 21 Transfiguring the "arts and sciences" 25 Part I Questions of the arts and sciences 37 Chapter 1 From the age of projects to the age of institutions 39 The cultural work of projecting 42 The discourse of institution in the Enlightenment 50 Institutions, academies, societies 56 Words and institutions in Romantic writing 60 Chapter 2 The administrator as cultural producer: restructuring the arts and sciences 63 Centers of action: knowledge and social welfare 66 Centers of attraction: a theater of arts and sciences 76 Lecturing the "arts and sciences" 84 Transmuting enlightenment 91 Chapter 3 Wild bibliography: the rise and fall of book history in the nineteenth century 97 Civilizing, or bibliography and the "arts and sciences" 100 Barbarism, or the bibliographical shockers 107 Black-letter reading 108 Extra-illustration 110 Wild bibliography and the "religion of the book" 112 Undoing Romantic-age book history 115 Chapter 4 Print and institution in the making of art controversy 119 Artists into print: expertise and authorship 123 Institution and contradiction in the art world 130 Conjunctures: mediating the public art controversy 133 Chapter 5 History and organization in the Romantic-age sciences 137 The politics of scientific revolution: an encounter 140 Disciplinarity and "organization" 144 Texts and instruments 149 Institutions and the differentiating of knowledges 152 What counts as knowledge 159 Part II Questions of the literary 163 Chapter 6 The Coleridge Institution 165 Writing and lecturing in the Coleridge Institution 168 Learning curves: Bentham and Coleridge revisited 174 Church and state, arts and sciences 188 Chapter 7 Dissenting from the "arts and sciences" 194 History, romance, knowledge 198 The Dissenter's London: knowledge and sociability 208 From Republic of Letters to literary field 212 Dissent in the arts 215 Dissenting vicissitudes: commerce and the "arts and sciences" 221 Parliamentary reform and the knowledges 225 Poets and institutors 230 Epilogue: transatlantic crossings 235 Notes 244 Introduction 244 Chapter 1 From the age of projects to the age of institutions 249 Chapter 2 The administrator as cultural producer: restructuring the arts and sciences 251 Chapter 3 Wild bibliography: the rise and fall of book history in the nineteenth century 259 Chapter 4 Print and institution in the making of art controversy 265 Chapter 5 History and organization in the Romantic-age sciences 268 Chapter 6 The Coleridge Institution 271 Chapter 7 Dissenting from the "arts and sciences" 276 Epilogue: transatlantic crossings 283 Bibliography 286 Primary sources 286 Secondary sources 292 Index 307 In this important and innovative study Jon Klancher shows how the Romantic age produced a new discourse of the "Arts and Sciences" by reconfiguring the Enlightenment's idea of knowledge and by creating new kinds of cultural institutions with unprecedented public impact. He investigates the work of poets, lecturers, moral philosophers, scientists and literary critics - including Coleridge, Godwin, Bentham, Davy, Wordsworth, Robinson, Shelley and Hunt - and traces their response to book collectors and bibliographers, art-and-science administrators, painters, engravers, natural philosophers, radical journalists, editors and reviewers. Taking a historical and cross-disciplinary approach, he opens up Romantic literary and critical writing to transformations in the history of science, history of the book, art history, and the little-known history of arts-and-sciences administration that linked early modern projects to nineteenth- and twentieth-cnetury modes of organizing "knowledges." His conclusions transform the ways we think about knowledge, both in the Romantic period and in our own. A long-awaited major study by a leading scholar of the culture and ideas of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; Gives us a new basis for understanding why and how literature became a more specialized discipline in the Romantic age ; Offers a prehistory of the later social sciences by showing how economic, sociological, statistical and other social-scientific understandings were mobilized by the writers of this period.--Publisher website "In this important and innovative study, Jon Klancher shows how the Romantic age produced a new discourse of the 'Arts and Sciences' by reconfiguring the Enlightenment's idea of knowledge and by creating new kinds of cultural institutions with unprecedented public impact. He investigates the work of poets, lecturers, moral philosophers, scientists and literary critics - including Coleridge, Godwin, Bentham, Davy, Wordsworth, Robinson, Shelley and Hunt - and traces their response to book collectors and bibliographers, art-and-science administrators, painters, engravers, natural philosophers, radical journalists, editors and reviewers. Taking a historical and cross-disciplinary approach, he opens up Romantic literary and critical writing to transformations in the history of science, history of the book, art history, and the little-known history of arts-and-sciences administration that linked early-modern projects to nineteenth- and twentieth-century modes of organizing 'knowledges'. His conclusions transform the ways we think about knowledge, both in the Romantic period and in our own" -- Provided by publisher In this original and important study, leading scholar Jon Klancher discusses how early nineteenth-century writers and thinkers adopted and transformed Enlightenment ideas of knowledge. His conclusions transform the ways we think about knowledge, both in the Romantic period and in our own.