Handbook of American Romanticism

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Handbook of American Romanticism

Edited by: Philipp Löffler , Clemens Spahr and Jan Stievermann

Volume 14 in the series Handbooks of English and American Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110592238

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Clemens Spahr, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; Philipp Löffler and Jan Stievermann, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
The Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
0 Introduction Philipp Löffler, Clemens Spahr and Jan Stievermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Definitions, Backgrounds, Contexts
1 Antebellum Period and Romanticism: Definitions and Demarcations Winfried Fluck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2 Antebellum Literary Culture: The Institutions of Romanticism David O. Dowling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3 Transnational Dimensions of Romanticism Johannes Voelz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
4 American Romanticism and Religion Jan Stievermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
5 Romanticism and European Philosophy, or “Idealism As It Appears in 1842” Thomas Constantinesco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Part II: Intellectual, Spiritual, and Political Debates
6 Romanticism and Democracy Daniel S. Malachuk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
7 Romanticism and Social Reform Sandra Harbert Petrulionis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
8 American Romanticism and Esotericism Everett Messamore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
9 America as Interior Space: Artificial Landscapes and the Modernization of Literature in Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Fiction Frank Kelleter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Part III: Contestations of Authorship and Genre
10 Authorship as Profession and the Uses of Genre in Antebellum America Philipp Löffler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
11 Poet-Prophets and Seers: American Romanticism, Authorship, and Literary Institutions Clemens Spahr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
12 Life Writing and Romantic Expressivism Kenyon Gradert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
13 The Fireside and Sentimental Poets Astrid Franke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Part IV: Close Readings
14 Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature (1836): American Romantic “Manifesto” Wesley T. Mott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
15 Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845): Romanticism and (Proto)Feminism Charlene Avallone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
16 The Continuous Creation of Walden Laura Dassow Walls Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
17 Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) John Evelev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
18 Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) and the Historical Imagination in American Romanticism Frank Obenland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
19 Romanticism and History: Göttingen and George Bancroft’s History of the United States (1834) Paul E. Kerry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
20 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) and the Politics of Sentimentalism David Komline Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
21 Myth and Mythmaking in the Douglass Circle Jared Hickman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	453
22 “The Soul Selects Her Own Society”: Emily Dickinson’s Poetry and the Creation of the Self Wendy Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477
23 The Great Psalm of the Republic: Walt Whitman’s Democratic Poetics Walter Grünzweig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	495
Part V: Reception Histories
24 Transcendentalist Legacies in American Philosophy Russell B. Goodman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	517
25 Rethinking Gender in Antebellum American Literature Marianne Noble Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	537
26 “In the Woods We Return to Reason and Faith”: American Romanticism, Environmentalism, and Seeker Spirituality Devin Zuber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	561
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	579
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	589
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	599

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies), Students (BA, MA and PhD level), Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 600
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
Keywords: Romanticism; American Literature; Literary Theory; American Culture

eBook

Published: July 5, 2021
ISBN: 9783110592238

Hardcover

Published: July 5, 2021
ISBN: 9783110590753