Romantic moods : paranoia, trauma, and melancholy, 1790-1840

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

Author/creator	Pfau, Thomas, 1960-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Description	xii, 572 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	English literature--19th century --History and criticism. Romanticism--Great Britain. German literature--19th century --History and criticism. Comparative literature--English and German. Comparative literature--German and English. Psychic trauma in literature. Melancholy in literature. Paranoia in literature. Emotions in literature. Romanticism--Germany.

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 note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-559) and index.
LCCN	2004028273
ISBN	0801881978 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR457 .P48 2005	✔ Available	Place Hold