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.
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.
LARRY H. PEER Professor of Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University, USA. He is the Executive Director of the International Conference on Romanticism, editor of the journal Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism, and the author of numerous books and essays in the field of Romanticism studies.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction; L.H.Peer PART I: THEORIES OF THE CITY Nerve Theory, Sensibility, and Romantic Metrosexuals; M.Faubert Wordsworth's Double-Take; W.Galperin The Lost Transatlantic City of John Galt's 'The Apostate'; J.Cass The Gothic Chapbook and the Urban Reader; D.L.Hoeveler Science and the City; M.Gaull PART II: CONTINENTAL CITIES Phenomenal Beauty: Rousseau in Venice; N.Yousef E. T. A. Hoffmann's Marketplace Vision of Berlin; A.Schlutz Renzo in Milan; E.Livorni Rome Above Rome: Nikolai Gogol's Romantic Vision of the Eternal City; T.Barnett PART III: LONDON Wordsworth's Invigorating Hell: London in Book 7 of 'The Prelude' (1805); E.Stelzig Blake's Golgonoosa: London and/as the Eternal City of Art; M.Lussier London's Immortal Druggists: Pharmaceutical Science and Business in Romanticism; T.H.Schmid Wordsworth's 'Illustrated Books and Newspapers' and City Media; P.Manning Babylon and Jerusalem on the Old Kent Road; T.Fulford
Introduction; L.H.Peer PART I: THEORIES OF THE CITY Nerve Theory, Sensibility, and Romantic Metrosexuals; M.Faubert Wordsworth's Double-Take; W.Galperin The Lost Transatlantic City of John Galt's 'The Apostate'; J.Cass The Gothic Chapbook and the Urban Reader; D.L.Hoeveler Science and the City; M.Gaull PART II: CONTINENTAL CITIES Phenomenal Beauty: Rousseau in Venice; N.Yousef E. T. A. Hoffmann's Marketplace Vision of Berlin; A.Schlutz Renzo in Milan; E.Livorni Rome Above Rome: Nikolai Gogol's Romantic Vision of the Eternal City; T.Barnett PART III: LONDON Wordsworth's Invigorating Hell: London in Book 7 of 'The Prelude' (1805); E.Stelzig Blake's Golgonoosa: London and/as the Eternal City of Art; M.Lussier London's Immortal Druggists: Pharmaceutical Science and Business in Romanticism; T.H.Schmid Wordsworth's 'Illustrated Books and Newspapers' and City Media; P.Manning Babylon and Jerusalem on the Old Kent Road; T.Fulford
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