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The Taming of Romanticism : European Literature and the Age of Biedermeier / Virgil Nemoianu.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature ; 37Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1984Edition: Reprint 2014Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674418264
  • 9780674418271
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 840 .9 145 19
LOC classification:
  • PN751
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 1. THE DYNAMICS OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD -- 2. SUPPORT FOR AN ENGLISH BIEDERMEIER -- 3. FRENCH ROMANTICISM: TWO BEGINNINGS? -- 4. EASTERN EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM: PATTERNS OF SUBSTITUTION -- 5. ROMANTIC IRONY AND BIEDERMEIER TRAGICOMEDY -- 6. THE BIEDERMEIER HISTORICAL NOVEL AND THE DECLINE OF COMPROMISE -- AFTERWORD -- NOTES -- INDEX -- Backmatter
Summary: Looking at a broad spectrum of writers--English, French, German, Italian, Russian and other East Europeans--Virgil Nemoianu offers here a coherent characterization of the period 1815-1848. This he calls the era of the domestication of romanticism. The explosive, visionary core of romanticism is seen to give way--after the defeat of Napoleon--to an expanded and softer version reflecting middle-class values. This later form of romanticism is characterized by moralizing efforts to reform society, a sentimental yearning for the tranquility of home and hearth, and persistent faith in the individual, alongside a new skepticism, shattered ideals, and consequent irony. Expanding the application of the term Biedermeier, which has been useful in describing this period in German literature, Nemoianu provides a new framework for understanding these years in a wider European context.
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 1. THE DYNAMICS OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD -- 2. SUPPORT FOR AN ENGLISH BIEDERMEIER -- 3. FRENCH ROMANTICISM: TWO BEGINNINGS? -- 4. EASTERN EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM: PATTERNS OF SUBSTITUTION -- 5. ROMANTIC IRONY AND BIEDERMEIER TRAGICOMEDY -- 6. THE BIEDERMEIER HISTORICAL NOVEL AND THE DECLINE OF COMPROMISE -- AFTERWORD -- NOTES -- INDEX -- Backmatter

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Looking at a broad spectrum of writers--English, French, German, Italian, Russian and other East Europeans--Virgil Nemoianu offers here a coherent characterization of the period 1815-1848. This he calls the era of the domestication of romanticism. The explosive, visionary core of romanticism is seen to give way--after the defeat of Napoleon--to an expanded and softer version reflecting middle-class values. This later form of romanticism is characterized by moralizing efforts to reform society, a sentimental yearning for the tranquility of home and hearth, and persistent faith in the individual, alongside a new skepticism, shattered ideals, and consequent irony. Expanding the application of the term Biedermeier, which has been useful in describing this period in German literature, Nemoianu provides a new framework for understanding these years in a wider European context.

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