Romanticism

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Romantic Immanence

Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences of immanence.

Struck by Apollo

Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801–02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.

A Bastard Kind of Reasoning

Ranges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.

Sensitive Negotiations

Examines how Indigenous figures used British Romantic poetry in their interactions with settler governments and publics.

The Amorous Imagination

Building on Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology of love this book takes up the “question of the Other” and argues that through the interpretive activities of the amorous imagination lovers come to experience one another as the Beloved.

Fracture Feminism

Shows how feminist writing in British Romanticism developed alternatives to linear time.

Death Rights

Analyzes how literary representations of suicide have reinforced antiblackness in the modern world.

On the Essence of Language

This important early Heidegger text sheds new light on his later focus on language.

Beasts of Burden

Uses literature, art, and cultural texts from the British Romantic period to explore the age in which biological life and its abilities first became regulated by the rising nation.

The Birth of Novalis

A frank and candid glimpse into the early life of the maturing poet.

Poems of Wine and Tavern Romance

By Hafiz & Martin Bidney
Translated by Martin Bidney
Subjects: General Interest

A selection of poems by one of Islam’s greatest poetic voices.

Romantic Psychoanalysis

By Joel Faflak
Subjects: Literature

How the Romantics invented psychoanalysis in advance of Freud.

Buried Communities

By Kurt Fosso
Subjects: Literature

Offers an explanation for the poet's mysterious and longstanding preoccupation with death and grief.

Romantic Poetry and the Fragmentary Imperative

Uses the concept of the poetic fragment to draw connections between romantic poetry and modern literature and literary theory.

The Perversity of Poetry

Explains why poetry gave way to the realist novel as the dominant literary form in nineteenth-century England.

Idealism without Absolutes

Extends the boundaries of Romantic culture from its pre-Kantian past to contemporary theory and beyond.

Rebellious Hearts

Examines the full spectrum of women's participation in the social, economic, religious, and poetic debates surrounding the French Revolution.

Beyond Romanticism

By Eugene England
Subjects: Literature

This biography of American poet Frederick Goddard Tuckerman focuses on his development as both a "Romantic," whose work was influenced by Keats, Emerson, and Tennyson, and as an "anti-Romantic," in the ...

The Literary Absolute

The first authoritative study of the emergence of the modern concept of literature in German romanticism.