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Compatative ronamticisms : power, gender, subjectivity

Essays on key aspects of Romanticism, viewed in a wider European context.
Print Book, English, 1998
Camden House, Columbia, 1998
243 p. : il. ; 24 cm.
9781571131706, 1571131701
1023989846
Remapping the landscape - the Romantic literary community revisited, Stephen C. Behrendt; mutual trust and the friendly loan - Melville and English Romanticism, Clark Davis; Romantic and realist rubble - the foundation of a new national literature in Melville's "Pierre" and Dostoevsky's "Poor Folk", Richard Kaplan; remembering the revolution - competing rhetorics in early Romanticism, Margaret Reid; the unexpress'd - Walt Whitman's late thoughts on Richard Wagner, Karen Karbiener; professionalizing gender - the female gothic, beating fantasies, and the civilizing process, Diane Long Hoeveler; the canon-maker - Felicia Hemans and Torquato Tasso's sister, Donelle R. Ruwe; "ungraspable phantoms" - Keats's Lamia and Melville's Yillah, Debbie Lopez; aesthetic discourses and maternal subjects - Enlightenment roots, Schlegelian revisions, Julie Costello; Pushkin and "Romanticizm", Larry H. Peer; Romantic poetry and civic space in the Wordsworthian cave, Fred V. Randel; Atala's body - Girodet and the representation of Chateaubriand's Romanticism, Michael Call; the postponed narratives of desire in Ludwig Tieck's novel "Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen", Heather I. Sullivan.