Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity
Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity

Author: Jamison Kantor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-01-19

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1009302418

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Despite our preconceptions, Romantic writers, artists, and philosophers did not think of honor as an archaic or regressive concept, but as a contemporary, even progressive value that operated as a counterpoint to freedom, a well-known preoccupation of the period's literature. Focusing on texts by William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Mary Prince, and Mary Seacole, this book argues that the revitalization of honor in the first half of the nineteenth century signalled a crisis in the emerging liberal order, one with which we still wrestle today: how can political subjects demand real, materialist forms of dignity in a system dedicated to an abstract, and often impoverished, idea of 'liberty'? Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity presents both a theory and a history of this question in the media of the Black Atlantic, the Jacobin novel, the landscape poem, and the “financial” romance.

Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity
Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity

Author: Jamison Kantor

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Published: 2022

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781009124140

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Despite our preconceptions, Romantic writers, artists, and philosophers did not think of honor as an archaic or regressive concept, but as a contemporary, even progressive value that operated as a counterpoint to freedom, a well-known preoccupation of the period's literature. Focusing on texts by William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Mary Prince, and Mary Seacole, this book argues that the revitalization of honor in the first half of the nineteenth century signalled a crisis in the emerging liberal order, one with which we still wrestle today: how can political subjects demand real, materialist forms of dignity in a system dedicated to an abstract, and often impoverished, idea of 'liberty'? Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity presents both a theory and a history of this question in the media of the Black Atlantic, the Jacobin novel, the landscape poem, and the "financial" romance.

Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
Staël, Romanticism and Revolution

Author: John Claiborne Isbell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-08-31

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1009362720

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Combating two centuries of sexism, this radical overview of Staël in context reveals a major player in Revolution and Romanticism.

Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel
Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel

Author: Olivia Ferguson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-11-02

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1009274260

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A counter-intuitive history of literary caricature, exploring how caricature helped make the realist novel in the Romantic period.

Orientation in European Romanticism
Orientation in European Romanticism

Author: Paul Hamilton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-10-20

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1009268244

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Exploring the experiments in individual and national self-consciousness conducted during the Romantic period, this essential comparative study of European literature, philosophy and politics makes original and often surprising connections and contrasts to reveal how personal and social identities were re-orientated and disorientated from the French Revolution onwards. Reviving a contested moment in the history of aesthetic theory, this study shows how the growing awareness of irresolution in Kant's third Kritik allowed Romantic writers to put the aesthetic to radical uses not envisaged by its parent philosophy. It also recounts how they would go on to force philosophy to revise received notions of authority, empowering women and subordinated ethnic groups to re-orientate existing hierarchies. The sheer range and variety of writers covered is testament both to the breadth of writing that Kant's philosophy so rashly legitimated and to the wider importance of philosophy to the understanding of Romantic literature.

Sound and Sense in British Romanticism
Sound and Sense in British Romanticism

Author: James Grande

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-08-31

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1009277847

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A captivating exploration of the newly reimagined world of sound and sense in Britain in the decades around 1800.

Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire
Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire

Author: Matthew Leporati

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-09-30

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1009285173

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Matthew Leporati examines the explosive Romantic revival of epic alongside the contemporary revival of missionary activity. His study contributes to charged political debates around British imperialism. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Late Romanticism and the End of Politics
Late Romanticism and the End of Politics

Author: John Havard

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-02-28

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1009289179

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In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen empires, sinking islands, and dying stars to the making and unmaking of populations in Frankenstein and The Last Man. These works intersected with and enclosed reflections upon brewing political changes. By imagining political dynasties, slavery, parliament, and English law reaching an end, writers challenged liberal visions of the political future that viewed the basis of governance as permanently settled. The prospect of volcanic eruptions and biblical deluges, meanwhile, pointed towards new political worlds, forged in the ruins of this one. These visions of coming to an end acquire added resonance in our own time, as political and planetary end-times converge once again.

Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era
Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era

Author: Hannah Doherty Hudson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-04-30

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1009321919

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Jane Austen's ironic reference to 'the trash with which the press now groans' is only one of innumerable Romantic complaints about fiction's newly overwhelming presence. This book draws on evidence from over one hundred Romantic novels to explore the changes in publishing, reviewing, reading, and writing that accompanied the unprecedented growth in novel publication during the Romantic period. With particular focus on the infamous Minerva Press, the most prolific fiction-producer of the age, Hannah Hudson puts its popular authors in dialogue with writers such as Walter Scott, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth, and William Godwin. Using paratextual materials including reviews, advertisements, and authorial prefaces, this book establishes the ubiquity of Romantic anxieties about literary 'excess', showing how beliefs about fictional overproduction created new literary hierarchies. Ultimately, Hudson argues that this so-called excess was a driving force in fictional experimentation and the advertising and publication practices that shaped the genre's reception. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.