Romanticism and philosophy: thinking with literature

by Constantinesco, Thomas Laniel-Musitelli, Sophie

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Full title :Romanticism and philosophy : thinking with literature / edited by Sophie Laniel-Musitelli and Thomas Constantinesco.

Summary

This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to offer new perspectives on the relationship between Romanticism and philosophy. The entanglement of Romantic literature with philosophy is increasingly recognized, just as Romanticism is increasingly viewed as European and Transatlantic, yet few studies combine these coordinates and consider the philosophical significance of distinctly literary questions in British and American Romantic writings. The essays in this book are concerned with literary writing as a form of thinking, investigating the many ways in which Romantic literature across the Atlantic engages with European thought, from 18th- and 19th-century philosophy to contemporary theory. The contributors read Romantic texts both as critical responses to the major debates that have shaped the history of philosophy, and as thought experiments in their own right. This volume thus examines anew the poetic philosophy of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Shelley, and Clare, also extending beyond poetry to consider other literary genres as philosophically significant, such as Jane Austen's novels, De Quincey's autofiction, Edgar Allan Poe's tales, or Emerson's essays. Grounded in complementary theoretical backgrounds and reading practices, the various contributions draw on an impressive array of writers and thinkers and challenge our understanding not only of Romanticism, but also of what we have come to think of as "literature" and "philosophy."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781317617952, 1317617959, 9781315752372, 1315752379, 9781317617969, 1317617967, 9781317617945, 1317617940, 1138805505, 9781138805507
oclc:ocn910237273
LC Classification:PN603
Dewey Decimal:809/.9145

Part I. Romantic confrontatioins -- Part II. The poetics of thought -- Part III. Romantic selves -- Part IV. Transatlantic romanticism.