TY - BOOK AU - Avallone,Charlene AU - Constantinesco,Thomas AU - Dassow Walls,Laura AU - Dowling,David O. AU - Evelev,John AU - Fluck,Winfried AU - Franke,Astrid AU - Goodman,Russell B. AU - Gradert,Kenyon AU - Grünzweig,Walter AU - Hickman,Jared AU - Kelleter,Frank AU - Kerry,Paul E. AU - Komline,David AU - Löffler,Philipp AU - Malachuk,Daniel S. AU - Martin,Wendy AU - Messamore,Everett AU - Mott,Wesley T. AU - Noble,Marianne AU - Obenland,Frank AU - Petrulionis,Sandra Harbert AU - Spahr,Clemens AU - Stievermann,Jan AU - Voelz,Johannes AU - Zuber,Devin TI - Handbook of American Romanticism T2 - Handbooks of English and American Studies : Text and Theory SN - 9783110590753 U1 - 810.9145 23/eng/20230216 PY - 2021///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter KW - Amerikanische Literatur KW - Romantik KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - American Culture KW - American Literature KW - Literary Theory KW - Romanticism N1 - Frontmatter --; The Editors’ Preface --; Contents --; 0 Introduction --; Part I: Definitions, Backgrounds, Contexts --; 1 Antebellum Period and Romanticism: Definitions and Demarcations --; 2 Antebellum Literary Culture: The Institutions of Romanticism --; 3 Transnational Dimensions of Romanticism --; 4 American Romanticism and Religion --; 5 Romanticism and European Philosophy, or “Idealism As It Appears in 1842” --; Part II: Intellectual, Spiritual, and Political Debates --; 6 Romanticism and Democracy --; 7 Romanticism and Social Reform --; 8 American Romanticism and Esotericism --; 9 America as Interior Space: Artificial Landscapes and the Modernization of Literature in Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Fiction --; Part III: Contestations of Authorship and Genre --; 10 Authorship as Profession and the Uses of Genre in Antebellum America --; 11 Poet-Prophets and Seers: American Romanticism, Authorship, and Literary Institutions --; 12 Life Writing and Romantic Expressivism --; 13 The Fireside and Sentimental Poets --; Part IV: Close Readings --; 14 Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature (1836): American Romantic “Manifesto” --; 15 Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845): Romanticism and (Proto)Feminism --; 16 The Continuous Creation of Walden --; 17 Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) --; 18 Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) and the Historical Imagination in American Romanticism --; 19 Romanticism and History: Göttingen and George Bancroft’s History of the United States (1834) --; 20 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) and the Politics of Sentimentalism --; 21 Myth and Mythmaking in the Douglass Circle --; 22 “The Soul Selects Her Own Society”: Emily Dickinson’s Poetry and the Creation of the Self --; 23 The Great Psalm of the Republic: Walt Whitman’s Democratic Poetics --; Part V: Reception Histories --; 24 Transcendentalist Legacies in American Philosophy --; 25 Rethinking Gender in Antebellum American Literature --; 26 “In the Woods We Return to Reason and Faith”: American Romanticism, Environmentalism, and Seeker Spirituality --; Index of Names --; Index of Subjects --; List of Contributors; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - The Handbook of American Romanticism presents a comprehensive survey of the various schools, authors, and works that constituted antebellum literature in the United States. The volume is designed to feature a selection of representative case studies and to assess them within two complementary frameworks: the most relevant historical, political, and institutional contexts of the antebellum decades and the consequent (re-)appropriations of the Romantic period by academic literary criticism in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110592238 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110592238 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110592238/original ER -