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Bernard Dieterle (Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse)
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In this volume a team of three dozen international experts presents a fresh picture of literary prose fiction in the Romantic age seen from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. The work treats the appearance of major themes in characteristically Romantic versions, the power of Romantic discourse to reshape imaginative writing, and a series of crucial reactions to the impact of Romanticism on cultural life down to the present, both in Europe and in the New World. Through its combination of chapters on thematic, generic, and discursive features, Romantic Prose Fiction achieves a unique theoretical stance, by considering the opinions of primary Romantics and their successors not as guiding »truths« by which to define the permanent »meaning« of Romanticism, but as data of cultural history that shed important light on an evolving civilization. |
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1. Gerald Gillespie |
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Preface |
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2. Gerald Gillespie / Bernard Dieterle / Manfred Engel |
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Introduction |
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Part I: Characteristic themes |
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3. Gerhart Hoffmeister |
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The French Revolution and prose fiction: Allegorization of history and its defeat by Romance |
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4. Bernard Dieterle |
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Wertherism and the Romantic Weltanschauung; |
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5. Gregory Maertz |
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Romanticism and the idealisation of the artist |
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6. Mihály Szegedy-Maszák |
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»Unheard melodies and unseen pictures«: The sister arts in Romantic fiction |
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7. Claudia Albert |
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Music and Romantic narration |
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8. Wilhelm Graeber |
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Nature and landscape between exoticism and national areas of imagination |
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9. Paola Giacomoni |
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Mountain landscapes and the aesthetics of the sublime in Romantic narration |
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10. André Lorant |
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The »wanderer« in Romantic prose fiction |
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11. Monika Schmitz-Emans |
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Night-sides of existence: Madness, dream, etc. |
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12. Ernst Grabovszki |
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Doubling, doubles, duplicity, bipolarity |
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13. Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer |
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Images of childhood in Romantic children’s literature |
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14. Michael Andermatt |
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Artificial life and Romantic brides |
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15. Thomas Klinkert / Weertje Willms |
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Romantic gender and sexuality |
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Part II. Paradigms of Romantic fiction |
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A. Generic types and representative texts |
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16. Hendrik van Gorp |
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The Gothic novel as a Romantic narrative genre |
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17. Manfred Engel |
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Variants of the Romantic »Bildungsroman« (with a short note on the »artist novel«) |
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18. Markus Bernauer |
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Historical novel and historical Romance |
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19. Jörn Steigerwald |
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The fairy-tale, the fantastic tale |
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20. Gerald Gillespie |
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The detective story and novel |
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21. Santiago Rodriguez Guerrero-Strachan |
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Récit, story, tale, novella |
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22. Sven Halse |
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The literary idyll in Germany, England, and Scandinavia 1770-1848 |
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B. Modes of discourse and narrative structures |
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23. Frederick Garber |
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Address, relation, community: Boundaries and boundarycrossing in Romantic narration |
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24. Monica Spiridon |
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Torn halves: Romantic narrative fiction between homophony and polyphony |
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25. Remo Ceserani / Zanotti |
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The fragment as structuring force |
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26. Sabine Rossbach |
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Mirroring, abymization, potentiation (involution) |
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27. John Clairborn Isbell |
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Romantic novel and verse Romance, 1750-1850: Is there a Romance continuum? |
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28. Dorothy Figueira |
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Myth in Romantic prose fiction |
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29. Virgil Nemoianu |
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From historical narrative to fiction and back: A dialectical game |
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30. Annette Paatz |
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Romantic prose fiction and the shaping of social discourse in Spanish America |
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Part III. Contributions of Romanticism to 19th and 20th century writing and thought |
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31. Juri Talvet |
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Narrative maneuvres in the »periphery« the Spanish and Latin American novel during Romanticism |
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32. Jeanne Smoot |
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Romantic thought and style in 19th century Realism and Naturalism |
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33. Joel Black |
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Romantic legacies in fin-de-siècle and early 20th century fiction |
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34. Steven P. Sondrup |
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Framing C.J.L. Almqvist: The narrative frame of Törnrosens bok and Romantic irony |
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35. José Ricardo Chaves |
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Romanticism, occultism and the fantastic genre in Spain and Latin America |
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36. Takayuki Yokota-Murakami |
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Romantic prose fiction in modern Japan: Finding an expression against the grain |
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37. A. Owen Aldridge |
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Ludic prose from Laurence Sterne to Carlos Fuentes |
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38. Elaine Martin |
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Rewrites and remakes: Screen adaptations of Romantic works |
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39. Gerald Gillespie / Manfred Engel / Bernard Dieterle |
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Conclusion |
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40. Appendix (Table of Contents, vols. 1-4); |
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41. Index of names and works |
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Other Volumes in the Romanticism Series:
The Romanticism Series (all 5 vols. at discount price)
A Tentative Chronological Bibliography of Romantic Fictional Prose
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Germanistik / Universität des Saarlandes Letzte Überarbeitung: 07.03.2008 (me) |