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03104aam a2200325 i 4500 001 8DAEFB746B5511E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 130521s2013 nyu b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2013940963 020 $a 0199686173 020 $a 9780199686179 035 $a (OCoLC)830367927 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d DLC $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d ERASA $d BUF $d LTSCA $d UBC $d NGU $d I3U $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a PN751 H254 2013 100 1 $a Hamilton, Paul, $d 1950- $e author. 245 10 $a Realpoetik : $b European romanticism and literary politics / $c Paul Hamilton. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY. : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2013. 300 $a viii, 238 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-231) and index. 505 0 $a Revolution and restoration: Romantic political transformations -- The exiles of Madame de Sta©±l -- The liberties of Benjamin Constant -- Chateaubriand's Christian eloquence -- Friedrich Schlegel's concert of Europe -- The Cosmopolitan Novalis -- Resourcing philosophy: Schelling's figurative materialism -- Leopardi and the proper conversation of a citizen. 520 $a Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. The principle of selection is to choose writers whose use of fiction is realistic -- not realist, but fundamentally contributory to the purposes of non-fictional discourse. The political resonance audible when we put Real at the start of a compound noun is also true to the period looked at. At that time, positive political institutions were recovering from their upending in the French Revolution and their strategic re-shaping in the period of Restoration after Napoleon. In this volume, Paul Hamilton pinpoints a moment when the political imagination was actually creative of political reality. It is a long gloss on Friedrich Meinecke's description of the early Romantic period in Germany as 'that past era of teeming intellectual impulses with its excess of non-political political ideals', but Hamilton finds his insight into the contemporary inextricability of the ideal and the political true of France and Italy. Before the existence of a unified Germany or Italy, and in the new France after Napoleon, there was an opportunity and a necessity to imagine the kind of nation which would be desirable. Realpoetik examines the extent to which this illuminates the fiction and philosophy of Friedrich Schlegel, Madame de Stael, Giacomo Leopardi and others. It also reflects on current dissatisfaction with existing political arrangements and our contemporary desire to re-imagine a new, more representative politics.--Book jacket. 650 0 $a European literature $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a European literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826092902.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8DAEFB746B5511E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search