| Description |
viii, 316 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Schiller's temporizing -- Rousseau's children -- Politics in reserve: Coleridge and Godwin -- Keats and critique -- Waverley: Scott's romantic narrative and revolutionary historiography -- French connection: the Shelleys' materialism -- Jane Austen's conservatism -- Romantic patriotism: Marvell's romantics -- Romanticism of contemporary ideology -- New romanticism: philosophical stand-ins in English romantic discourse -- Sublimity to indeterminacy: dreams of a new world order -- Romantic republicanism and multicultural progress |
| Summary |
Publisher description: This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Through a close look at the aesthetics of Friedrich Schiller and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and key works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy and Mary Shelley, John Keats, Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, and many others, Hamilton shows how the romantic movement's struggle with its own tenets was not an effort to seek an alternative way of thought, but instead a way of becoming what it already was. And yet, as he reveals, the romanticists were still not content with their own self-consciousness. Pushed to the limit, such contemplation either manifested itself as self-disgust or found aesthetic ideas regenerated in discourses outside of aesthetics altogether |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Romanticism -- Europe.
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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European literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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European literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
2002155087 |
| ISBN |
0226314790 : |
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0226314804 paperback |
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9780226314792 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780226314808 paperback alkaline paper |
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