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Romanticism bubbled up as lava from such historical eruptions as the Napoleonic Wars. The power of its flow across disciplines and linguistic borders reminds us that the use of the term in a context limited to one linguistic, national, or political tradition, or to one discipline or area of human development, shows an essential ignorance of the ideational configurations elaborated and lived out by the movement. Among its consistent norms are the notion of reality as a transcendent self-unfolding Geist, everything existing in a dialectical relationship with all else; the position that art reveals mythic understructures of reality; and that all kinds of kinship are more normal than isolation. This book brings together essays that highlight the inclusivity of Romanticism. A team of eleven scholars offers fresh glimpses of Romanticism as it manifests itself in a number of disciplines, including most prominently literature, but also music, painting, and the sciences. In so doing, the contributors treat Romanticism as interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic, providing data and interpretive viewpoints that illuminate the discursive features and the pan-European nature of the movement. Contributors: Lloyd Davies, Ellis Dye, Stacey Hahn, Hollie Markland Harder, Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Sarah Lippert, Marjean D. Purinton, Ashley Shams, Kaitlin Gowan Southerly. Larry H. Peer is Professor of Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University. Christopher R. Clason is Professor of German at Oakland University.

Romanticism. --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements

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Through close engagement with the work of Wordsworth, Austen, and Byron, this study posits the emergence of the everyday as both a concept and a material event in the Romantic period, analyzing the practices of retrospection to which it gave rise.

English literature --- Romanticism --- History and criticism.

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The web of reception. Romantic writers in the Victorian media ecology -- Reception traditions and punctual historicism -- Minding the generation gap -- Illustrations. Illustration as renovation -- Renovating romantic poetry: retrofitted illustrations -- Turning the page: illustrated frontmatter -- Sermons. A religious reception tradition -- Converting Shelley -- Spurgeon, Byron, and the contingencies of mediation -- Statues. -- Secular pantheons for the reformed: Byron in Cambridge -- The distributed pantheon: Scott in Edinburgh -- The networked Pantheon: Byron in London -- Anthologies. Scattered odes in shattered books: quantifyingVictorian anthologies -- Romantic short poems in Victorian anthologies -- Romantic long poems in Victorian anthologies -- Coda: Ozymandias at the Olympics; or, she walks in Brixton

English literature --- Romanticism --- History and criticism

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The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing, is repeatedly tied to prophecy, not in the sense of telling future events, but in the sense of speaking in the place of another—most often unbeknownst to the speaker herself. In prophetic speech, the confusion of tongues repeats, each time anew, as language takes place unpredictably in more than one voice and more than one tongue at once. Mendicino argues that the relation between translation and prophecy drawn by German Romantic writers fundamentally changes the way we must approach this so-called “Age of Translation.” Whereas major studies of the period have taken as their point of departure the opposition of the familiar and the foreign, Mendicino suggests that Romantic writing provokes the questions: how could one read a language that is not one? And what would such a polyvocal, polyglot language, have to say about philology—both for the Romantics, whose translation projects are most intimately related to their philological preoccupations, and for us? In Prophecies of Language, these questions are pursued through readings of major texts by G.W.F. Hegel, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Schlegel, and Friedrich Hölderlin. These readings show how, when one questions the presupposition of works composed by individual authors in one tongue, these texts disclose more than a monoglot reading yields, namely the “plus” of their linguistic plurality. From such a surplus, each chapter goes on to advocate for a philology that, in and through an inclination toward language, takes neither its unity nor its structure for granted but allows itself to be most profoundly affected, addressed—and afflicted—by it.

Romanticism--Germany. --- Hegel. --- Humboldt. --- Hölderlin. --- Schlegel. --- Translation. --- idealism. --- philology. --- prophecy. --- romanticism. --- PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics. --- Romanticism --- German literature --- Translating and interpreting. --- History and criticism.