Neoclassical Satire and the Romantic School 1780–1830

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-89971-986-4
Verlag: V&R unipress

Buch, Englisch, Band Band 012, 437 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 870 g

Reihe: Super alta perennis. Studien zur Wirkung der Klassischen Antike

Romanticism was not only heterogeneous and disunited. It also had to face the counter-movements of the Enlightenment and Augustan Neoclassicism, which were still gaining momentum in the decades around the French Revolution. Neoclassicists regarded Romanticism as a heretical amalgam of dissenting “new schools” threatening the monopoly of the Classical Tradition. Acrimonious debates in aesthetics and politics were conducted with the traditional strategies of the classical “ars disputandi” on both sides. Under the duress of the heaviest satirical attacks, Romanticism began to gradually see itself as one movement, giving rise to the problematic opposition of “Classical” with “Romantic”. This construction, however, was indispensable for the clarification of different positions among the hubbub of conflicting voices. It has also proved critical in literary and cultural studies. The Classical Tradition emerges as an ongoing event from Greek and Latin antiquity via Neoclassicism and Romanticism to our time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lessenich, Rolf P.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Baumann, Uwe

Laureys, Marc

Schmitz, Winfried

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Leseproben

Romanticism was not only heterogeneous and disunited. It also had to face the hostile counter-movement of the Enlightenment and Augustan Neoclassicism, still going strong at the time of and in the decades following the French Revolution due to support from the ruling Establishment (the ancien régime of the Crown and Church of England). Neoclassicists regarded Romanticism as a heteretical amalgam of dissenting "new schools", which threatened the monopoly of the Classical Tradition. The acrimonious debates in aesthetics and politics were conducted with the traditional strategies of the classical "ars disputandi" on both sides. Under the duress of the heaviest satirical attacks, Romanticism began gradually to see itself as one movement, giving rise to the problematic opposition of "Classical" and "Romantic". The construction of this rough divide, however, was indispensable for the clarification of different positions in the hubbub of conflicting voices, and has also proved critical in literary and cultural studies which cannot do without such subsumptions. The Classical Tradition, encompassing Christianity, emerges as an ongoing event from Greek and Latin antiquity running through to our time.>

Über Autor(innen)

Schmitz, Winfried
Dr. Winfried Schmitz ist Professor für Alte Geschichte am Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft der Universität Bonn.

Laureys, Marc
Dr. Marc Laureys ist Professor für Mittel- und Neulateinische Philologie an der Universität Bonn und Sprecher des Bonner Centre for the Classical Tradition.

Lessenich, Rolf P.
Prof. Dr. Rolf P. Lessenich lehrte vor seiner Emeritierung am Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie der Universität Bonn. Er ist auch Romanist, Komparatist und Mitbegründer des Bonner Centre for the Classical Tradition.

Baumann, Uwe
Prof. Dr. Uwe Baumann lehrt Anglistik: Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Bonn.

Dr. Rolf P. Lessenich, geb. 1940, ist Professor Emeritus am Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie (IAAK) der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Er ist auch Romanist, Komparatist und Mitbegründer des Bonner Centre for the Classical Tradition.