The Politics of Romanticism

Pascal Fischer, Christoph Houswitschka (Eds.)

The Politics of Romanticism. Selected Papers from the Bamberg Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism

ISBN 978-3-86821-802-2, 222 pp., 4 illustrations, paperback, € 29,50 (2019)

(Studien zur Englischen Romantik, Vol. 22)

Pascal Fischer and Christoph Houswitschka: Introduction: The Politics of Romanticism

Anthony John Harding: Romanticism and the Politics of Dissent: From Religious Liberty to Romantic Radicalism Rolf Lessenich: Millennial Hope Shattered: William Godwin's Travels of St Leon and Romantic Scepticism

Kirsty J. Harris: Ill-Starr'd Wanderers: Exile, Refuge, and Charlotte Smith's The Emigrants

Katrin Röder: Hospitality as a Precarious Ethico-Political Practice in Charlotte Smith's The Young Philosopher

Nicholas Roe: Placing Displacement: Wordsworth and Coleridge in the 1790s

Jacob Lloyd: "far in some sequester'd dell": The Politics of Retirement in the Poetic Dialogue of John Thelwall and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ian Duncan: Don Giovanni Automaton

Tilottama Rajan: Godwin's Fleetwood and the Persistence of Dissensus

Dennis Weißenfels: Body Politic and National Body: Political Myth-Making and Romantic Nationalism in John Bull's Bible

Gavin Sourgen: The Revolt of Islam and the Politics of Form

Stefanie Fricke: Barbary Captivity in the Romantic Age

Peter J. Kitson: Romantic Nationalism, De Quincey and the Public Debate about the First Opium War, 1839-42

Mirosława Modrzewska and Grażyna B. Tomaszewska: The Institution of Romanticism in Polish Culture: Trends and Politics

Mihaela Irimia: Decebalus's Ancestral Voice Prophesying National Unity: Romanian Romanticism and the Politics of Ethno-Genetic Identity

Mathelinda Nabugodi: Allegorical Realism: Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin's Reading of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Political Verse

Frederick Burwick: Shelley's Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant: George IV and the Adultery Trial of Queen Caroline

Angela Esterhammer: Political Economy and Narrative Performance in John Galt's The Entail

Judith Thompson: 'Affiance on Affiance Multiply': John Thelwall and the Hope of Future Time