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Navigating the landscape of Romantic literature and art across Europe and the Americas, An Outline of Romanticism in the West invites readers to embark upon a literary journey. Showcasing a breadth of theoretical and contextual approaches to the study of Romanticism, John Isbell provides an insightful contemporary overview of the field, paired with wide-ranging comparative reflections on the art and literature that helped shape it. Discussing seminal Romantic texts such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or Germaine de Staël's Corinne ou l'Italie, Isbell provides a foundation through which to investigate core concepts, such as the continuum of Romance, the Romantic hero, and Romantic literature's characteristic repudiation of its own Romanticism. Unusually for a single-author monograph, the book includes both published and unpublished material covering Romantic creation across Europe and the two Americas. Identifying Romanticism as an international movement, Isbell seeks to emphasise a theme frequently ignored by many academics: the roots of Romanticism, and its variations, as a national art. His arguments are supported by extensive interrogations of the political and historical contexts that moulded the outlooks of the writers and artists central to the period. An Outline of Romanticism in the West underlines the interplay between nationalism, history, and artistic inspiration, and will therefore be of value to students and scholars of literature and history, as well as to general readers with an interest in Romanticism in the West.

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Die transareal ausgelegte Vorlesung unternimmt den Versuch, nach der (vielleicht schon verlorenen) Einheit der Romantik hinter der Vielgestaltigkeit romantischer Diskurse zwischen zwei Welten, Europa und Amerika, zu fragen. Gab es eine Romantik oder gab es deren viele? Was zeichnet die Literaturen der Romantik in Frankreich und Deutschland, in Spanien und Italien, im Norden und vor allem im Süden des amerikanischen Doppelkontinents aus? Welche Schreibformen entwickelt eine Dichterin wie Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, die zwischen Spanien und Kuba pendelt; welche Vermittlungsmöglichkeiten sieht Germaine de Staël im deutsch-französischen Dialog; in welcher Beziehung steht die Dichtung Baudelaires zu den Schriften Poes; und was bestimmte die Rezeption deutscher Romantik in Mexiko? Die Vorlesung gibt den Blick darauf frei, in welchem Maße im Jahrhundert der Nationalismen inter- und transkulturelle Beziehungen zwischen Ländern und Kontinenten bestanden, und hinterfragt die Monologe nationalliterarischer Ausrichtung. This transareal lecture inquires into the (perhaps already lost) unity of Romanticism behind the polymorphism of the Romantic discourses that took place between two worlds, Europe and America. This lecture reveals the scope of cultural relations between countries and continents in the century of nationalisms and questions the monological focus on national literatures.

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