1st Edition
Transforming Tragedy, Identity, and Community
PART I
1. Introduction: the survival of tragedy in European Romanticisms Diego Saglia
2. Tragedy without society: Alfieri’s Italian theater and the discourse of value Joseph Luzzi
3. Alexandre Dumas père’s La Tour de Nesle (1832): tragedy or melodrama? Barbara T. Cooper
4. The Polis, Romantic tragedy, and untimeliness in Frei Luis de Sousa Helena Buescu
PART II
5. Introduction Tilottama Rajan and Lilla Maria Crisafulli
Transnational Encounters
6. Theorizing a republican poetics: P.B. Shelley and Alfieri Michael Rossington
7. The translator and the fairies: Christoph Martin Wieland’s Oberon and the British Romantics Carlotta Farese
8. Romanticism displaced and placeless Stuart Curran
9. Feeling cosmopolitan: the novel politician after Byron Emily Allen and Dino Franco Felluga
Epistemic Encounters
10. Imagination as inter-science Richard C. Sha
11. Formal relocations: the method of Southey’s Thalaba the Destroyer (1801) Dahlia Porter
12. Gained horizons: Buddhism in Tibetan colonial travelogues Elena Spandri
13. Euthanasia’s handkerchief; or, The object at the end of history Sonia Hofkosh
Encountering Community
14. Readers respond to Godwin: Romantic republicanism in letters Pamela Clemit
15. The (inoperative) epistolary community in Eliza Fenwick’s Secresy Christopher Bundock
16. The inoperative community of Romantic psychiatry Joel Faflak
Biography
Lilla Maria Crisafulli is Professor of English at the University of Bologna. She is director of the Interuniversity Centre for the Study of Romanticism and editor of the journal La Questione Romantica. She has published extensively on P.B. Shelley, on Anglo-Italian Literature, on Romantic women poets and playwrights (see, with Cecilia Pietropoli, Romantic Women Poets: Genre and Gender, Rodopi 2007; and, with Keir Elam, Women’s Romantic Theatre and Drama: History, Agency, Performance, Ashgate 2010).
Tilottama Rajan is Distinguished University Professor and Canada Researh Chair in English and Theory at the University of Western Ontario. She is the founder or the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, editor of seven books, and author of over seventy five articles and four books, most recently Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard (Stanford, 2002), and Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft (Johns Hopkins, 2010).
Diego Saglia is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Parma (Italy). His research focuses on Romantic-period literature and its connections with other contemporary European traditions. He is the author of Poetic Castles in Spain: British Romanticism and Figurations of Iberia (2000), and editor (with Laura Bandiera) of British Romanticism and Italian Literature: Translating, Reviewing, Rewriting (2005).
