Steve Clark

British Romanticism in European Perspective: Into the Eurozone Steve Clark 1st ed. 2015 edition

Marc Notes: This collection asks what British Romanticism looks like in the context of European literature, history and culture. Romanticism is at the root of modern European nationalism. The Romantic idea of national character contributes to the tendency to study national Romanticisms in isolation, despite the cosmopolitan international circulation also essential to the movement. Britain's complex identity as island, United Kingdom, and European nation highlights the ways the forces of separatism and unity, nationalism and internationalism work in constant tension in the understanding of nation that has grown from Romanticism. The character, and the dating, of Romanticism alter when perceived from different national and generic perspectives. The essays here range from poetry and the novel to science writing, philosophy, visual art, opera and melodrama, placing British Romanticism in relation to other European traditions, from France and Germany to Italy and Bosnia--; Provided by publisher. Biographical Note: Steve Clark is Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology in the University of Tokyo, Japan. He has edited essay collections and special issues ranging in topic from William Blake to travel writing to Paul Ricoeur. His most recent articles discuss Isabella Bird on Japan, and the fiction of Gopal Baratham. Tristanne Connolly is Associate Professor at St Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo, Canada. She is the author of William Blake and the Body and essays on Blake, Erasmus Darwin, Romantic women poets, maternity, sexuality, and religion. She has edited several essay collections, most recently Sexy Blake with Helen P. Bruder. Table of Contents: List Of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes On The ContributorsIntroduction. Into The Eurozone: European Dimensions Of British Romanticism, Then And Now; Steve Clark And Tristanne Connolly 1. The Genealogy Of The Scientific Sublime: Glaciers, Mountains, And The Alternating Modes Of Representation; Kaz Oishi 2. Et In Arcadia Ego: Philosophical Aesthetics And The Origins Of European Romanticism In Shaftesbury's Characteristics And Rousseau's Reveries; Evy Varsamopoulou 3. Cross-Channel Discourses Of Sensibility: Madeleine De Scudery's Clelie (1660) And Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote (1752); Kimiyo Ogawa 4. Amphibious Grown: Hester Thrale, Della Crusca And The Italian Origins Of British Romanticism; Steve Clark5. L'Exception Anglaise: Joseph Priestley Abroad And Romantic Poetics; Stephen Bygrave6. 'Mistaken For Natives Of The Soil': Translation And Erasmus Darwin's Loves Of The Plants; Tristanne Connolly 7. Family, Marriage, And The State In Romanticism's Other Genres; David Shakespeare8. 'What Means This Wild, This Allegorick Mask?': British Anticipations Of Romantic Opera C. 1740; David Chandler9. Blake And The European (Pre) History Of Melodrama: Beyond The Borders Of Time And Stage; Diane Piccitto10. From The English To The French Revolution: The Body, The World, And Experience In Locke's Essay, Bentley's 'A Prospect Of Vapourland', And Blake's Songs; Peter Otto11. 'Some Roads Unfold Before Us / Without A Beaten Track': Unearthing Bosnia's Romantic Spirit Through The Poetry Of Mak Dizdar; Maja Pa ovic Bibliography Index"Publisher Marketing: What, and when, is British Romanticism, if seen not in island isolation but cosmopolitan integration with European Romantic literature, history and culture? The essays here range from poetry and the novel to science writing, philosophy, visual art, opera and melodrama; from France and Germany to Italy and Bosnia.

Contributor Bio:  Clark, Steve Steve Clark is Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo.