Narratives of Romanticism

Selected Papers from the Wuppertal Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-3-86821-726-1
Verlag: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 452 g

Reihe: Studien zur englischen Romantik

The two terms 'narrative' and 'Romanticism' have both undergone major re-definitions during the last few decades. It seems quite a long time since the lyric dominated the 'Period Formerly (and still) Known as Romanticism' and since Romantic fiction was routinely discarded as having "little intrinsic merit" (Ian Watt). While the Romantic period has now become recognised as "an extraordinarily eventful and decisive phase in the development of the British novel" (Karen O'Brien), the work of recovering and re-assessing novels as well as other narrative genres of the period is still very much in progress. A similar stimulating re-orientation and expansion of the research field has taken place in the study of narrative: new genres and media have come into focus, and various new or 'postclassical' approaches have emerged in answer to a broader concept of narrative and the increased interest in cultural and historical contextualisation. The phrase Narratives of Romanticism is deliberately ambiguous, so as to allow for two different ways of bringing 'narrative' and 'Romanticism' together: narratives written during the Romantic period and narratives about the Romantic period. Discussions of both types of 'narratives of Romanticism' can be found in this volume. While the contributors to this volume take different approaches to narratives of Romanticism – from Deleuzian deconstruction to the cognitive sciences, affect theory and ecocriticism –, they agree on and start their arguments from the hypothesis that narratives are important human means of organising experience, whose major function is sense-making. Contributors: Sandra Heinen, Katharina Rennhak, Ian Duncan, Jeffrey Champlin, Camille Barrera, Katrin Röder, Pascal Fischer, Ralf Haekel, Raphaël Ingelbien, Lis Møller, Angela Esterhammer, Tilottama Rajan, David Duff, Jan Alber, Mathelinda Nabugodi, Michael O'Neill, Claire Connolly, Seth T. Reno, Sabrina Sontheimer, Christopher Catanese, Saree Makdisi.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heinen, Sandra

Rennhak, Katharina

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Sandra Heinen and Katharina Rennhak Narratives of Romanticism: Introduction         7 Ian Duncan Bildung versus Roman : Germaine de Staël's Corinne        17 Jeffrey Champlin The Future of the Broken Promise: Body Structuralism and Earth Narrative in Frankenstein        27 Camille Barrera The Ethics of the Storyteller's Dis/Appearance in Moby-Dick and The Last Man        39 Katrin Röder Emplotting Happiness: Charlotte Smith's Celestina and Desmond        53 Pascal Fischer Anti-Illusionist Self-Reflexivity in the Conservative Romantic Novel: Elizabeth Hamilton's Memoirs of Modern Philosophers        67 Ralf Haekel The Narrative Construction of Irish National Identity: The Case of Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl        79 Raphaël Ingelbien The 'Headachy School' of Fiction: Thomas Colley Grattan and the Irish Romantic Novel        91 Lis Møller Ballads into Novels: Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and B. S. Ingemann's The Childhood of King Erik Menved        103 Angela Esterhammer Speculative Fiction and Counterfactual Narrative in Scottish and Irish Romanticism        115 Tilottama Rajan Sophia Lee's Baroque Narratology: The Recess and the (Dis)simulation of the Real        123 David Duff Turns, Transports and Transformations: Lyric Events in Romantic Poetry       137 Jan Alber Narrating the Orient: Some Brief Eastern Episodes in Romantic Poetry        149 Mathelinda Nabugodi Dream Revisions: Percy Bysshe Shelley's Queen Mab and Hellas        163 Michael O'Neill Narrative and Play: Byron's Beppo and Shelley's The Witch of Atlas        177 Claire Connolly Natural History and the History of Nature: Environmental Narratives in Irish Romanticism        195 Seth T. Reno Romantic Clouds: Narrating Climate Change        211 Sabrina Sontheimer James Cook and the Other(s): Multiple Authorship and Narrating Alterity        227 Christopher Catanese Survival Narratives: Georgic Extinction and the Romantic Genre-System        239 Saree Makdisi Blake, Lamb, London        253 List of Contributors        269