Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Comparative Literature, Romanticism
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Overview
It has been observed that the reevaluation of Romanticism is a special feature of post-New-Critical or revisionist criticism in America. Constituting a lively ecumenical dialogue between literary historians and theorists, and between critics based in comparative literature and national literature departments, the essays in Cultural Interactions in the Romantic Age offer abundant proof that this process continues unabated. Focusing on a broad range of interactive relations from 1750 to 1850, these essays reveal as factitious the national and linguistic borders erected within the Academy and strike a blow against the tendency of literary studies to ossify into arbitrary ethnocentric categories. Cultural Interactions in the Romantic Age makes a strong argument for the position that literary activity in the Romantic Period is inseparable from international dialogue and appropriation.Editorials
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Eleven previously unpublished critical essays reflect the continuing relevance of comparative approaches to Romanticism. The authors suggest that national literary cultures of the time did not simply coexist in symbiotic relations, but drew their identity from multiple interactions with each other. The catalytic forces of this process were concrete interactions with texts, places, and, in the case of Germaine de Sta<:e>l and Rahel Varnhagen, living personalities. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
February 28, 1998
Publisher
Albany : State University of New York Press, c1998.
Pages
258
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780791435595