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...Xiaolu Ma Abstract Revolutionary romanticism has been one of the twentieth century’s most influential literary modes, particularly within the genealogy of socialist aesthetics. Its importance becomes particularly clear when we look beyond a Eurocentric approach to romanticism. If we take...

... Capitalism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991). 148 MLQ March 2008 term socialist realism was rephrased in 1958 as “the combination of revo- lutionary realism and revolutionary romanticism,” which during the Cultural Revolution led to the production...

... with Frye, “The Drunken Boat: The Revolutionary Element in Romanticism,” in Romanticism Reconsidered: Selected Papers from the English Institute, ed. Northrop Frye (New York: Columbia University Press, 1963), 14-5. Frye takes the term vehicular form from Blake ( 14). For recent work on romanticism...

... characteristics of the eighteenth cen- tury coniniorily exert strong influence on theories of Romanticism. Our older “attributional construction of Romantic theory,” as Morse Yeckham has termed it,l was given to building up theories of Romanti- cism on the basis of supposed antithetical relations...

... in the eighteenth century, “became the core and sine qua non of Romanticism and the key to romantic art, literature, and thought” (p. 4). Hence it follows that Romanti- cism is not, as might be supposed, the antithesis to the Enlightenment, pro- duced by a revolutionary reaction against eighteenth-century...

...Leila Walker [email protected] Late Romanticism and the End of Politics: Byron, Mary Shelley, and the Last Men . By John Havard . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2023 . ix + 234 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 How many times can...

... in Europe, continued to express enthusi- asm for the French Revolution even after the excesses of the “Ter- ror” had scared off everyone else. Kant was no bloody revolutionary, but the scientific habit of mind which was ingrained in him made him realise the full political and philosophical...

... is a kinder, gentler figure whose resistance to his own “romanticism” coincidentally yet necessarily implies resistance to a way of reading of him that is alternately humanistic, in. its fascination with the poet’s privatizing tendencies, and deconstructive in its endorsement of the equally discrete...

... such. MICHAEL,MURKIK University of Chicago Romanticism and the Form of Ruin: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Modalities of Frciy- mentation. By THOMASMCFARLAND. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. xxxiv + 432 pp. $30.00, cloth; $9.50, paper. This immensely learned book provides...

...Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud [email protected] The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism . By Mark Canuel . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022 . viii + 238 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 Perhaps more than any other literary period, British...

... simply fail to cohere. The book also never substantially engages the other, better-known tradition of Romanticism—of transcendence, excess, revolutionary impatience, and the sublime—as surely it must to situate its claims for this countertradition. Instead, it tends to slide restlessly from one...

...David Simpson David Simpson is Distinguished Professor and G. B. Needham Chair of English at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger (2013). Blake’s Agitation: Criticism and the Emotions . By Goldsmith Steven...

... and passed on by Pierre de Ronsard to the seventeenth century, when a renewed “classical spirit” perfected it. In the “order and light” of clas- sical literature, human reason is most clearly evidenced. But if classicism stood for order, clarity, and the primacy of reason, Romanticism represented...

... and elaborates diverse thoughts without endangering “Romanticism” as a term with expectations and boundaries. JAMES ENGELL 2 13 Chapters 2 and 3 conclude the book’s first part by surveying differences between “Design and Theodicy in a Mechanized Universe...

...Robert M. Maniquis Julie A. Carlson. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xiii + 267 pp. $52.95. Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Baer I Review 651 selves, who are engaged...

...: Dantom Tod and Leonce und Lena. In the first drama Gunkel points to Buchner’s tender descrip- tion of the epicurean traits in the character of his revolutionary hero, to his sensitive portrayal of Danton’s aspirations to high honors and fame, and to Buchner’s exclusivism in his indifferent...

... sidelined in critical constructions of British Romanticism, which usually emphasized the works of male poets as opposed to female nov- elists. Renewed attention to the work of Romantic women writers, how- ever, has challenged many dominant narratives about Romanticism.3 Owenson’s and Staël’s dialogues...

... in the study of British Romanticism dur- ing the past two decades has been the rapid expansion, as unprecedented as it was unforeseen, of the field itself. Not only has the number of poets regu- larly taught and written about, which had dwindled to six or seven by the 1960s, grown much larger, thanks to new...

... of the Nation: Women’s Political Writing in England, 1780–1830. By Anne K. Mellor. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. 172 pp. The most important development in the study of British Romanticism dur- ing the past two decades has been the rapid expansion, as unprecedented as it was unforeseen...

... in the study of British Romanticism dur- ing the past two decades has been the rapid expansion, as unprecedented as it was unforeseen, of the field itself. Not only has the number of poets regu- larly taught and written about, which had dwindled to six or seven by the 1960s, grown much larger, thanks to new...