1st Edition
Romantic Legacies Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts
Foreword
James Engell
Introduction
Shun-liang Chao and John Michael Corrigan
Part I Realist Romanticism
1. Romantic Walking and Railway Realism
Rachel Bowlby
2. The Use and Abuse of Romance: Realist Revisions of Walter Scott in England, France, and Germany
Geoffrey Baker
3. Chekhov on the Meaning of Life: After Romanticism and Nihilism
Yuri Corrigan
Part II Fin-de-Siècle Romanticism
4. Keats Gone Wilde: Wilde’s Romantic Self-Fashioning at the Fin de Siècle
Ya-Feng Wu
5. Delacroix, Signac, and the Aesthetic Revolution in Fin-de-siècle France
Shao-Chien Tseng
6. Mediating Richard Wagner and Henry Bishop: Frederick Corder and the Different Legacies of German and English Romantic Opera
David Chandler
Part III (Post)Modern Romanticism
7. Platonism, Its Heirs, and the Last Romantic
Arthur Versluis
8. Vexed Meditation: Romantic Idealism in Coleridge and Its Afterlife in Bataille and Irigaray
Justin Prystash
9. "You have to be a transparent eyeball": Transcendental Afterlives in Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men
John Michael Corrigan
Part IV Environmental Romanticism
10. Tracing Romanticism in the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Reading of Ludwig Tieck’s Rune Mountain
Caroline Schaumann
11. The Eye of the Earth: Nonhuman Vision from Blake to Contemporary Ecocriticism
Sophie Laniel-Musitelli
12. "Indistinctness is my forte": Turner, Ruskin, and the Climate of Art
Carmen Casaliggi
Par V Oriental Romanticism
13. ReOrienting Romanticism: The Legacy of Indian Romantic Poetry in English
Steve Clark
14. Grafting German Romanticism onto the Chinese Revolution: Goethe, Guo Morou, and the Pursuit of Self-Transcendence
Johannes D. Kaminski
15. Two Chinese Wordsworths: The Reception of Wordsworth in Twentieth-Century China
Li Ou
16. "The world must be made Romantic": The Sentimental Grotesque in Tetsuya Ishida’s "Self-Portraits of Others"
Shun-liang Chao
Biography
Shun-liang Chao, PhD is Associate Professor of English and Comparative literature at National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
John Michael Corrigan, PhD is Associate Professor of American literature and digital humanities at National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
Romantic Legacies is an important contribution to our expanded understanding of the legacies of romanticism. The essays in this collection range widely across geography, chronology and artistic form to explore the ongoing resonances of the romantic impulse across cultures.
Andrew Taylor, University of Edinburgh
