Handbook of American Romanticism
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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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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2021
ISBN
9783110592238
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. The Editors’ Preface
  2. Contents
  3. 0 Introduction
  4. Part I: Definitions, Backgrounds, Contexts
  5. 1 Antebellum Period and Romanticism: Definitions and Demarcations
  6. 2 Antebellum Literary Culture: The Institutions of Romanticism
  7. 3 Transnational Dimensions of Romanticism
  8. 4 American Romanticism and Religion
  9. 5 Romanticism and European Philosophy, or “Idealism As It Appears in 1842”
  10. Part II: Intellectual, Spiritual, and Political Debates
  11. 6 Romanticism and Democracy
  12. 7 Romanticism and Social Reform
  13. 8 American Romanticism and Esotericism
  14. 9 America as Interior Space: Artificial Landscapes and the Modernization of Literature in Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Fiction
  15. Part III: Contestations of Authorship and Genre
  16. 10 Authorship as Profession and the Uses of Genre in Antebellum America
  17. 11 Poet-Prophets and Seers: American Romanticism, Authorship, and Literary Institutions
  18. 12 Life Writing and Romantic Expressivism
  19. 13 The Fireside and Sentimental Poets
  20. Part IV: Close Readings
  21. 14 Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature (1836): American Romantic “Manifesto”
  22. 15 Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845): Romanticism and (Proto)Feminism
  23. 16 The Continuous Creation of Walden
  24. 17 Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851)
  25. 18 Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) and the Historical Imagination in American Romanticism
  26. 19 Romanticism and History: Göttingen and George Bancroft’s History of the United States (1834)
  27. 20 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) and the Politics of Sentimentalism
  28. 21 Myth and Mythmaking in the Douglass Circle
  29. 22 “The Soul Selects Her Own Society”: Emily Dickinson’s Poetry and the Creation of the Self
  30. 23 The Great Psalm of the Republic: Walt Whitman’s Democratic Poetics
  31. Part V: Reception Histories
  32. 24 Transcendentalist Legacies in American Philosophy
  33. 25 Rethinking Gender in Antebellum American Literature
  34. 26 “In the Woods We Return to Reason and Faith”: American Romanticism, Environmentalism, and Seeker Spirituality
  35. Index of Names
  36. Index of Subjects
  37. List of Contributors