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Handbook of American Romanticism
Philipp Löffler, Clemens Spahr, Jan Stievermann, Philipp Löffler, Clemens Spahr, Jan Stievermann
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Handbook of American Romanticism
Philipp Löffler, Clemens Spahr, Jan Stievermann, Philipp Löffler, Clemens Spahr, Jan Stievermann
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The Handbook of American Romanticism presents a comprehensive survey of the various schools, authors, and works that constituted antebellum literature in the United States. The volume is designed to feature a selection of representative case studies and to assess them within two complementary frameworks: the most relevant historical, political, and institutional contexts of the antebellum decades and the consequent (re-)appropriations of the Romantic period by academic literary criticism in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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- The Editors’ Preface
- Contents
- 0 Introduction
- Part I: Definitions, Backgrounds, Contexts
- 1 Antebellum Period and Romanticism: Definitions and Demarcations
- 2 Antebellum Literary Culture: The Institutions of Romanticism
- 3 Transnational Dimensions of Romanticism
- 4 American Romanticism and Religion
- 5 Romanticism and European Philosophy, or “Idealism As It Appears in 1842”
- Part II: Intellectual, Spiritual, and Political Debates
- 6 Romanticism and Democracy
- 7 Romanticism and Social Reform
- 8 American Romanticism and Esotericism
- 9 America as Interior Space: Artificial Landscapes and the Modernization of Literature in Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Fiction
- Part III: Contestations of Authorship and Genre
- 10 Authorship as Profession and the Uses of Genre in Antebellum America
- 11 Poet-Prophets and Seers: American Romanticism, Authorship, and Literary Institutions
- 12 Life Writing and Romantic Expressivism
- 13 The Fireside and Sentimental Poets
- Part IV: Close Readings
- 14 Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature (1836): American Romantic “Manifesto”
- 15 Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845): Romanticism and (Proto)Feminism
- 16 The Continuous Creation of Walden
- 17 Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851)
- 18 Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) and the Historical Imagination in American Romanticism
- 19 Romanticism and History: Göttingen and George Bancroft’s History of the United States (1834)
- 20 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) and the Politics of Sentimentalism
- 21 Myth and Mythmaking in the Douglass Circle
- 22 “The Soul Selects Her Own Society”: Emily Dickinson’s Poetry and the Creation of the Self
- 23 The Great Psalm of the Republic: Walt Whitman’s Democratic Poetics
- Part V: Reception Histories
- 24 Transcendentalist Legacies in American Philosophy
- 25 Rethinking Gender in Antebellum American Literature
- 26 “In the Woods We Return to Reason and Faith”: American Romanticism, Environmentalism, and Seeker Spirituality
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
- List of Contributors