Comparative Romanticisms: Power, Gender, Subjectivity
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European Context
Gender
Individual National Views
Interrelations
Keith Booker
Key Aspects
Key Romantic Texts
Nadine Gordimer
Ngugi wa Thiongo
Power
Romanticism
Subjectivity
Tsitsi Dangarembga
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- ISBN 9781571131706
- Weight: 534g
- Dimensions: 386 x 579mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jun 1998
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Essays on key aspects of Romanticism, viewed in a wider European context.
Despite a century of sustained critical activity and an interest level in the last ten years never before reached (as reflected in the sheer number of scholarly works produced), the study of Romanticism remains focused for the most part through individual, national, and linguistic views, and is now largely embedded in the complications of contemporary theory as applied through those limiting views. Partly responsible is the fact that Romanticism itself forms a set of rhetorical, cultural, and ideological lenses refracting a multiplicity and even chaos that at times seems to defy comparative analysis.
In an attempt to refocus on Romanticism without trying to invent a new synthesis for the movement, the editors have selected thirteen essays from a variety of older and newer scholarly voices that represent a rethinking of key Romantic texts and interrelations through the lens of three fundamental theoretical issues: power, gender, and subjectivity. They call for a newly comparative sense of Romanticism that avoids the kind of critical explication of these issues limited to single national, linguistic, or cultural traditions, or seenthrough too narrowly applied contemporary theoretical `-isms'.
