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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      13 October 2022
      20 October 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009268226
      9781009268233
      9781009268257
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009268226
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.62kg, 322 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.468kg, 322 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, English Literature 1700-1830, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (137)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, English Literature 1700-1830, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (137)
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    Exploring the experiments in individual and national self-consciousness conducted during the Romantic period, this essential comparative study of European literature, philosophy and politics makes original and often surprising connections and contrasts to reveal how personal and social identities were re-orientated and disorientated from the French Revolution onwards. Reviving a contested moment in the history of aesthetic theory, this study shows how the growing awareness of irresolution in Kant's third Kritik allowed Romantic writers to put the aesthetic to radical uses not envisaged by its parent philosophy. It also recounts how they would go on to force philosophy to revise received notions of authority, empowering women and subordinated ethnic groups to re-orientate existing hierarchies. The sheer range and variety of writers covered is testament both to the breadth of writing that Kant's philosophy so rashly legitimated and to the wider importance of philosophy to the understanding of Romantic literature.

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    ‘Orientation in European Romanticism lends itself to specialists and nonspecialists alike if one has the grit and raw passion for further exploration of European Romanticism and its continued aesthetic influence. This is indeed a worthy, if challenging, addition to the current critical literature on European Romanticism and aesthetics in general.’

    Wayne Deakin Source: European Romantic Review

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