Romantic Rapports

<p>Romanticism bubbled up as lava from such historical eruptions as the Napoleonic Wars. The power of its flow across disciplines and linguistic borders reminds us that the use of the term in a context limited to one linguistic national or political tradition or to one discipline or area of human development shows an essential ignorance of the ideational configurations elaborated and lived out by the movement. Among its consistent norms are the notion of reality as a transcendent self-unfolding <I>Geist</I> everything existing in a dialectical relationship with all else; the position that art reveals mythic understructures of reality; and that all kinds of kinship are more normal than isolation. This book brings together essays that highlight the inclusivity of Romanticism. A team of eleven scholars offers fresh glimpses of Romanticism as it manifests itself in a number of disciplines including most prominently literature but also music painting and the sciences. In so doing the contributors treat Romanticism as interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic providing data and interpretive viewpoints that illuminate the discursive features and the pan-European nature of the movement. ~~~~~ CONTRIBUTORS: Lloyd Davies Ellis Dye Stacey Hahn Hollie Markland Harder Jennifer Law-Sullivan Sarah Lippert Marjean D. Purinton Ashley Shams Kaitlin Gowan Southerly.</p>