Beyond Romanticism: New Approaches to Texts and Contexts 1780-1832

TLDR

Beyond challenges traditional Atlantic views by engaging in under‑represented debates central to literary studies, highlighting how Romanticism has historically undervalued historical claims while maintaining confidence in poetic value. The book aims to demystify Romanticism by examining its historical development and showing how its aesthetic construction asserted independence. The authors analyze Romanticism’s evolution and its philosophical underpinnings—including mesmerism, Hellenism, orientalism, and nationalism—to demonstrate its aesthetic independence. The work offers a sustained critique of ideology. The book is intended for postgraduates, undergraduates, and academics of English literature, especially those focused on Romantic literature.

Abstract

Beyond is a challenge to traditional views of as they have developed on both sides of Atlantic. It provides a sustained critique of ideology. The essays engage in debates central to development of literary studies. These debates have traditionally been under-represented in study of Romanticism, where claims of history have not had same status as in other periods, and where confidence in poetic literary value is still at its height. Beyond demystifies the by examining historical development of Romanticism and demonstrating how this very aesthetic construction asserted its independence. The essays also examine philosophical underpinnings of contemporary Romantic discourses, such as mesmerism, Hellenism, orientalism and nationalism. This book should be of interest to postgraduates, undergraduates and academics of English literature, particularly Romantic literature.