Handbook of American Romanticism

Book

Handbook of American Romanticism

Edited by: Philipp Löffler , Clemens Spahr and Jan Stievermann

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2021

Published by

Become an author with De Gruyter Brill

Explore this Subject How to publish with us

This book is in the series

Volume 14 | Handbooks of English and American Studies

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.

Topics

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

Publishing information

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

July 5, 2021

eBook ISBN:

9783110592238

Hardcover published on:

July 5, 2021

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110590753

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

9

Main content:

600

Illustrations:

2

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110592238

eBook ISBN: 9783110592238

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110590753

Keywords for this book

Romanticism; American Literature; Literary Theory; American Culture

Audience(s) for this book

Academics (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies), Students (BA, MA and PhD level), Libraries, Institutes

Safety & product resources

Manufacturer information:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Genthiner Straße 13
10785 Berlin
productsafety@degruyterbrill.com

Handbook of American Romanticism

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Bibliographic data