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Author:

Nemoianu, Virgil.

Title:

The triumph of imperfection : the silver age of sociocultural moderation in Europe, 1815-1848 / Virgil Nemoianu.

Publisher:

University of South Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xi, 258 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

European literature--19th century--History and criticism
Romanticism--Europe.
Europe--Intellectual life--19th century

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Center, margin, absence. The absent center of romantic prose : Chateaubriand and his peers -- History : from politics to religion. Absorbing modernization : the dilemmas of progress in Goeth's Faust II ; From Goeth to Guizot : the conservative contexts of Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre ; From historical narrative to fiction and back : a dialectical game ; J.F. Cooper and eastern European and African American intellectuals : borders and depths of multiculturalism ; Sacrality and aesthetics in the early nineteenth century : a network approach -- Information : the moderating force. The informative narration : from cultural packaging to psychological geography ; Learning over class : the case of the central-European ethos ; National poets in the romantic age : emergence and importance ; The conservation of voracious reading : the case of Robert Southey's The doctor -- Conclusions? Romanticism : beginnings, explosion, epidemic.

ISBN:

9781570035937
1570035938 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61115513

LCCN:

2005020247

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)