Title :

Introduction - Thinking with Literature

Author(s) :

Musitelli, Sophie [Auteur]
Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères - ULR 4074 [CECILLE]
Constantinesco, Thomas [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones [LARCA UMR 8225]

Scientific editor(s) :

Sophie Laniel-Musitelli
Thomas Constantinesco

Book title :

Romanticism and Philosophy : Thinking with Literature

Publisher :

Routledge

Publication place :

New York and London

Publication date :

2015

ISBN :

978-1-138-80550-7

English keyword(s) :

Romanticism
Theory and literary criticism
Literature and philosophy
Transatlantic Romanticism
Poetry

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Littératures
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Philosophie

English abstract : [en]

This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to offer new perspectives on the relationship between Romanticism and philosophy. The entan-glement of Romantic literature with philosophy is increasingly recognized, ...
Show more >This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to offer new perspectives on the relationship between Romanticism and philosophy. The entan-glement of Romantic literature with philosophy is increasingly recognized, just as Romanticism is increasingly viewed as European and Transatlantic, yet few studies combine these coordinates and consider the philosophical significance of distinctly literary questions in British and American Romantic writings. The essays in this book are concerned with literary writing as a form of thinking, investigating the many ways in which Romantic literature across the Atlantic engages with European thought, from eighteenth-and nineteenth-century philosophy to contemporary theory. The contributors read Romantic texts both as critical responses to the major debates that have shaped the history of philosophy, and as thought experiments in their own right. This volume thus examines anew the poetic philosophy of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Shelley, Keats, and Clare, also extending beyond poetry to consider other literary genres as philosophically significant , such as Jane Austen's novels, De Quincey's autofiction, Edgar Allan Poe's tales, and Emerson's essays. Grounded in complementary theoretical backgrounds and reading practices, the various contributions draw on an impressive array of writers and thinkers and challenge our understanding not only of Romanticism, but also of what we have come to think of as " literature " and " philosophy. "Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre d'Études en Civilisations Langues et Lettres Étrangères (CECILLE) - ULR 4074

Source :

Harvested from HAL