ABSTRACT

Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts presents the most wide-ranging treatment of Romantic regenerations, covering the cross-pollination between the arts or between art and thought within or across the borders of Germany, Britain, France, the US, Russia, India, China, and Japan. Each chapter in the volume examines a legacy or afterlife in a comparative context to demonstrate ongoing Romantic legacies as fully as possible in their complexity and richness. The volume provides readers a lens through which to understand Romanticism not merely as an artistic heritage but as a dynamic site of intellectual engagement that crosses nations and time periods and entails no less than the shaping of our global cultural currents.

chapter |30 pages

Introduction

Romantic Legacies: An Incomplete Project

part I|1 pages

Realist Romanticism

chapter 2|17 pages

The Use and Abuse of Romance

Realist Revisions of Walter Scott in England, France, and Germany

chapter 3|16 pages

Chekhov on the Meaning of Life

After Romanticism and Nihilism

part II|19 pages

Fin-de-Siècle Romanticism

chapter 4|19 pages

Keats Gone Wilde

Wilde’s Romantic Self-Fashioning at the Fin de Siècle

chapter 6|16 pages

Mediating Richard Wagner and Henry Bishop

Frederick Corder and the Different Legacies of German and English Romantic Opera

part III|1 pages

(Post)Modern Romanticism

chapter 8|17 pages

Vexed Meditation

Romantic Idealism in Coleridge and Its Afterlife in Bataille and Irigaray

chapter 9|18 pages

“You have to be a transparent eyeball”

Transcendental Afterlives in Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men

part IV|2 pages

Environmental Romanticism

chapter 10|20 pages

Tracing Romanticism in the Anthropocene

An Ecocritical Reading of Ludwig Tieck’s Rune Mountain

chapter 11|20 pages

The Eye of the Earth

Nonhuman Vision from Blake to Contemporary Ecocriticism

chapter 12|15 pages

“Indistinctness is my forte”

Turner, Ruskin, and the Climate of Art

part V|2 pages

Oriental Romanticism

chapter 13|21 pages

ReOrienting Romanticism

The Legacy of Indian Romantic Poetry in English

chapter 14|17 pages

Grafting German Romanticism onto the Chinese Revolution

Goethe, Guo Morou, and the Pursuit of Self-Transcendence

chapter 15|17 pages

Two Chinese Wordsworths

The Reception of Wordsworth in Twentieth-Century China

chapter 16|25 pages

“The world must be made Romantic”

The Sentimental Grotesque in Tetsuya Ishida’s “Self-Portraits of Others” 1