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urn:uuid:2925acef-56cf-4459-9a2f-cbf42625006f 03 01 01 urn:uuid:2925acef-56cf-4459-9a2f-cbf42625006f 15 9781800647442 06 10.11647/OBP.0302 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 An Outline of Romanticism in the West 1 A01 21 0000-0003-0644-9530 John Claiborne Isbell 01 eng 00 252 03 12 D 10 LIT000000 B2 Literature 04 PN751 20 Romantic literature 12 DSBF 10 LIT004120 20 Romantic art 12 DS 20 Europe 10 LIT024030 20 Americas 12 DSC 10 LIT024040 12 DSK 10 LIT014000 20 Shelley 20 Staël 20 nationalism 20 politics 20 history 20 artistic inspiration 03 00 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 Unusually for a single-author monograph, the book includes both published and unpublished material covering Romantic creation across Europe and the two Americas.Identifying Romanticism as an international movement, Isbell seeks to emphasise a theme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. 04 00 Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Romanticism and the Nations of the West 1. German Lands, 1800. Novalis, Heinrich von Ofterdingen 2. France, 1807. Germaine de Staël, Corinne ou l’Italie (Corinne, or Italy) 3. Spain, 1814–1815. Francisco Goya, 3 de mayo 1808 (3rd May 1808) 4. The British Isles (England), 1818. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus 5. Russia, 1825–1832. Alexander Pushkin, Evgenii Onegin (Eugene Onegin) 6. The United States, 1826. James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans 7. Eastern Europe (Poland), 1834. Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz 8. Northern Europe (Denmark), 1835–1837. Hans Christian Andersen, Eventyr (Fairy Tales) 9. The Italian Peninsula, 1835. Giacomo Leopardi, Canti (Cantos) 10. Latin America (Argentina), 1838/1871. Esteban Echeverría, El Matadero (The Slaughter Yard) 11. The Low Countries (Belgium), 1838. Hendrik Conscience, De Leeuw Van Vlaanderen (The Lion of Flanders) 12. Portugal, 1846. João de Almeida Garrett, Viagens na minha terra (Travels in My Homeland) Chapter Two: The Frankenstein Dilemma. Romantic Disavowals of Romanticism, 1800–1830 1. German Lands 2. The Swiss Confederation 3. The British Isles 4. Italy, Russia, Sweden 5. France 6. Conclusion Chapter Three: Romantic Novel and Verse Romance. Is There a Romance Continuum? 0. Prefatory Remarks on Terminology 1. German Lands 2. The British Isles 3. France 4. The Italian Peninsula 5. Northern and Eastern Europe 6. Iberia and the Low Countries 7. The Two Americas 8. Conclusion Chapter Four: Racine et Shakespeare’s Sleeping Partners. The Return of the Repressed 1. Private Life and Empire: Henri Beyle, 1803–1814 2. The Birth of Stendhal: Romantic Milan, 1814–1821 3. Paris in 1823–1825: Racine et Shakespeare 4. Conclusion Chapter Five: Thoughts on the Romantic Hero, 1776–1848 1. Prelude: Manon Lescaut and Jean-Jacques Rousseau 2. German Lands 3. France 4. The British Isles 5. The Italian Peninsula 6. Eastern and Northern Europe 7. Iberia and the Low Countries 8. The Americas 9. The Drama 10. Romantic Women Writers: The State of the Field 11. Conclusion Romanticism Outside the Western Ambit Bibliography Index 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20220905 13 15 9781800647435 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0302.pdf 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0302 99 01