Romantic moods : paranoia, trauma, and melancholy, 1790-1840 / Thomas Pfau.

Contents Feeling, self-awareness, and aesthetic formalization after Kant -- Anxious inspiration : radical knowledge in Godwin and some contemporaries -- Paranoia historicized : the dialectics of treason and political representation in 1790s London -- "Long before the time of which I speak" : traumatic history and lyric awakenings, 1800-1815 -- Phantasie : the postmodernity of Romantic lyricism and political conservatism -- "The purest English" : serialization, Eros, and melancholy in the early Keats -- Melancholy into ressentiment : aesthetic and social provocation in Heine's Buch der Lieder (1827).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [473]-559) and index.
LCCN 2004028273
ISBN0801881978 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR457 .P48 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold