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Author:

Pfau, Thomas, 1960-

Title:

Romantic moods : paranoia, trauma, and melancholy, 1790-1840 / Thomas Pfau.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xii, 572 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism
Romanticism--Great Britain.
German literature--19th century--History and criticism
Literature, Comparative--English and German.
Literature, Comparative--German and English.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Melancholy in literature.
Paranoia in literature.
Emotions in literature.
Romanticism--Germany.
Littérature anglaise--19e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Romantisme--Grande-Bretagne.
Littérature allemande--19e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Littérature comparée--Anglaise et allemande.
Littérature comparée--Allemande et anglaise.
Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature.
Mélancolie dans la littérature.
Paranoïa dans la littérature.
Émotions dans la littérature.
Romantisme--Allemagne.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [533]-559) and index.

Contents:

Feeling, self-awareness, and aesthetic formalization after Kant -- Anxious inspiration : radical knowledge in Godwin and some contemporaries -- Paranoia historicized: the dialectics of treason and political representation in 1794 -- "Long before the time of which I speak" : traumatic history and lyric awakenings, 1800- -- Fantasie : the post-modernity of Romantic lyricism and political conservatism -- The purest English : serialization, Eros, and melancholy in the early Keats -- Melancholy into ressentiment : aesthetic and social provocation in Heine.

ISBN:

9780801881978 (alk. paper)
0801881978 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57170002
(OCoLC)62089631

LCCN:

2004028273

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)