Romantic Ambiguities

Abodes of the Modern
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-3-86821-727-8
Verlag: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 501 g

Reihe: Studien zur englischen Romantik

Romanticism's turn to subjective experience is based on a new awareness of the language- and media-related complexities of authentic representation. It anticipates modernist concerns and, on a more general note, the linguistic and medial turns of the twentieth century. Following James Chandler's insight that Romanticism constitutes "a cultural idiom, a whole way of being in the world", the contributions to this volume ask what is specifically modern in this cultural idiom and in how far the modernity of Romanticism depends on ambiguity as a paradigm of modernity as defined in Christoph Bode's Ästhetik der Ambiguität . Contributors: Sebastian Domsch, Katharina Rennhak, Mark J. Bruhn, Nicholas Halmi, Ralf Haekel, Frank Erik Pointner, Dennis Weißenfels, Jens Martin Gurr, James Vigus, Cian Duffy, Gerold Sedlmayr, Peter J. Kitson, Frederick Burwick, Michael O'Neill, Angela Esterhammer, Martin Procházka, Ian Duncan, Pascal Fischer, Miroslawa Modrzewska, Stanislaw Modrzewski, Sabrina Sontheimer, Stefanie Fricke, Christoph Reinfandt.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Domsch, Sebastian

Reinfandt, Christoph

Rennhak, Katharina

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Sebastian Domsch and Katharina Rennhak Introduction: Romantic Ambiguities – Abodes of the Modern        1 I Poetry        19 Mark J. Bruhn Ambiguity in Affect: The Modernity of Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads        21 Nicholas Halmi Two Types of Wordsworthian Ambiguity        37 Ralf Haekel 'The earth is all before me': Contingency and Ambiguity in Milton's Paradise Lost and Wordsworth's The Prelude        53 Frank Erik Pointner and Dennis Weißenfels From Childe Harold to Don Juan: Narrative Ambiguity in Byron's Major Works        69 Jens Martin Gurr Views on Violence in Shelley's Post-Peterloo Prose and Poetry: Contradiction, Ambivalence, Ambiguity?        83 II Non-Fictional Prose        95 James Vigus A 'Romantic State of Uncertainty': William Hazlitt's 'On Going a Journey'        97 Cian Duffy Ambiguity and the Value of 'Literature': Thomas De Quincey's Modernist Commodities        111 Gerold Sedlmayr The Ambiguous Nature of the Romantic Scientification of Literary Knowledge        125 Peter J. Kitson 'Unexpected Affinities' and 'Fatal Errors': Ambiguities in the Romantic Reception of Confucius        139 III Drama and the Novel        151 Frederick Burwick The Ambiguity of Time in Romantic Drama        153 Michael O'Neill Anatomizing Casuistry: Shelley's The Cenci and the Fate of Analysis        169 Angela Esterhammer Ambiguous Identities in Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and Its Late-Romantic Contexts        181 Martin Procházka Internalized Apocalypse? Ambiguities of Transcendentalism in Melville's Pierre; or, The Ambiguities        193 Ian Duncan The Novel and the Romantic 'Moment'        201 IV Afterlives        215 Pascal Fischer The Sublime: A Category of Ambiguity        217 Miroslawa Modrzewska and Stanislaw Modrzewski Navigational Approximations in Joseph Conrad's World at Sea        229 Sabrina Sontheimer Travelling Ambiguities in the Illustrated Rimes of the Ancient Mariner        241 Stefanie Fricke Losing and Gaining Ambiguities: First Impressions, Pride and Prejudice and The Lizzie Bennet Diaries        259 Christoph Reinfandt The Romantic Paradigm: Ambiguity, Then and Now        279 Contributors        295 Acknowledgements        301