European Romanticism

Romanticism was always culturally diverse. Though English-language anthologies have previously tended to see Romanticism as predominantly British the term itself actually originated in Germany where it became the banner of a Europe-wide movement involving the profound intellectual and aesthetic changes which we now associate with modernity. This anthology is the first to place British Romanticism within a comprehensive and multi-lingual European context showing how ideas and writers interconnected across national and linguistic boundaries. By reprinting everything in the original languages together with an English translation of all non-English material in parallel on the opposite page it offers a new intellectual map of Romanticism. Material is thematically arranged as follows: <br/><br/>- Art & Aesthetics <br/>- The Self <br/>- History <br/>- Language <br/>- Hermeneutics & Theology <br/>- Nature <br/>- The Exotic <br/>- Science<br/> <br/>While focusing on European texts the inclusion of essays on their North American and Japanese reception means that Romanticism can be seen as a global phenomenon influencing a surprising number of the ways in which the modern world sees itself.