Paul Hamilton

Orientation in European Romanticism (eBook, PDF)

The Art of Falling Upwards

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Produktbeschreibung

This book frames Romanticism as the epicentre of modern Europe''s fascination with orientation and disorientation in literature and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009268264
• Artikelnr.: 70909383

Autorenporträt

Paul Hamilton is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. He has been Visiting Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Visiting Professor at La Sapienza University of Rome. His book Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory (2003) won the Jean-Pierre Barricelli book prize. His most recent books are, as editor, The Oxford handbook of European Romanticism (2016) and, as author, Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Disorientating Kant: 1. Introduction: sublimity and abjection
2. Kleist and the Kant-crisis
3. Hölderlin and the philosophers
Part II. The Uses of Abjection: 4. The feminist humanism of Felicia Hemans: the poetics of Records of Woman (1828)
5. Thomas Moore and the national lyric
6. Ugo Foscolo's literary hypocrisy
Part III. Optimism and Pessimism: 7. Balzac's comic pessimism
8. George Sand's optimism
Part IV. Romancing the Modern: 9. Retrospect: Rilke translates Leopardi.