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OverviewDespite its widely acknowledged importance in and beyond the thought of the Romantic period, the distinctive concept of the symbol articulated by such writers as Goethe and F. W. J. Schelling in Germany and S. T. Coleridge in England has defied adequate historical explanation. In contrast to previous scholarship, Nicholas Halmi's study provides such an explanation by relating the content of Romantic symbolist theory - often criticized as irrationalist - to the cultural needs of its time. Because its genealogical method eschews a single disciplinary perspective, this study is able to examine the Romantic concept of the symbol in a broader intellectual context than previous scholarship, a context ranging chronologically from classical antiquity to the present and encompassing literary criticism and theory, aesthetics, semiotics, theology, metaphysics, natural philosophy, astronomy, poetry, and the origins of landscape painting. The concept is thus revealed to be a specifically modern response to modern discontents, neither reverting to pre-modern modes of thought nor secularizing Christian theology, but countering Enlightenment dualisms with means bequeathed by the Enlightenment itself. This book seeks, in short, to do for the Romantic symbol what Percy Bysshe Shelley called on poets to do for the world: to lift from it its veil of familiarity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nicholas Halmi (, University Lecturer in English Literature of the Romantic Period, University of Oxford Margaret Candfield Fellow, University College)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.403kg ISBN: 9780199212415ISBN 10: 0199212414 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 29 November 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations 1: Defining the Romantic Symbol 2: Burdens of Enlightenment 3: Uses of Philosophy 4: Uses of Theology 5: Uses of Mythology Appendix: The So-called 'Oldest Programme for a System of German Idealism' BibliographyReviewsThe Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol is a really fine book, and one that anyone interested in Romantic literary theory will find absorbing. Halmi draws on an impressively wide range of authorities; he gathers a complex argument into pages of pleasurable lucidity; and he pursues his quarry with grace. Seamus Perry, The Wordsworth Circle innovative... a brilliant and original study that is essential reading for scholars of the Romantic period. Orianne Smith, Year's Work in English Studies an important contribution to Romantic scholarship. Carol Tully, The Modern Language Review This book offers one of the most profound reflections on symbol since Paul de Man: subtle, original and provocative. It is a brief book, but extremely rich, and often brilliant. This is history of ideas as it ought to be written. Michael John Kooy, THES Halmi's book will take its place before long among the indespensable contributions to Romantic studies Uttara Natarajan, Notes and Queries innovative... a brilliant and original study that is essential reading for scholars of the Romantic period. Orianne Smith, Year's Work in English Studies an important contribution to Romantic scholarship. Carol Tully, The Modern Language Review This book offers one of the most profound reflections on symbol since Paul de Man: subtle, original and provocative. It is a brief book, but extremely rich, and often brilliant. This is history of ideas as it ought to be written. Michael John Kooy, THES The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol is a really fine book, and one that anyone interested in Romantic literary theory will find absorbing. Halmi draws on an impressively wide range of authorities; he gathers a complex argument into pages of pleasurable lucidity; and he pursues his quarry with grace. Seamus Perry, The Wordsworth Circle innovative... a brilliant and original study that is essential reading for scholars of the Romantic period. Orianne Smith, Year's Work in English Studies an important contribution to Romantic scholarship. Carol Tully, The Modern Language Review This book offers one of the most profound reflections on symbol since Paul de Man: subtle, original and provocative. It is a brief book, but extremely rich, and often brilliant. This is history of ideas as it ought to be written. Michael John Kooy, THES Halmi's book will take its place before long among the indespensable contributions to Romantic studies Uttara Natarajan, Notes and Queries Author InformationEducated at Cornell University and at the University of Toronto, Nicholas Halmi currently teaches English and comparative literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has lectured on Enlightenment and Romantic topics, particularly the concept of the symbol, in the US, Canada, UK, and Germany. He has been Advisory editor of Romanticism on the Net since 1996, review editor since 2004. He is an editorial board member of Modern Language Quarterly and was elected to the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions and to the Advisory Board of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism in 2005. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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