Transgressive Romanticism

"Romanticism is an intuitive grasp of the self and the other in an interdependent imperative, non-systematic, transcendent, radically individuated, and endlessly interconnective. The set of norms Romanticism represents and broadcasts, therefore, lends itself particularly well to interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic study, essentially demanding a view coming from and constructed out of more than one discourse field. These norms radically transgress not only the cultural and literary inheritance of thinkers and artists beginning in the late eighteenth century, but do so in a transnational and comparative way unique in Western history. This collection of essays, bringing together established scholars and newer academic voices, offers fresh perspectives on what Romanticism thought itself to be by suggesting spaces in Romanticism studies needing negotiation and elaboration. Presenting a protocol that escapes the circular referentiality of Romanticism studies typically limited to one academic discipline or one language area, this volume works through topics and ideas including Hegelian reflections, lyric poetry, stage drama, music, political implications, and even vampires, outlaws and zombies."-- Back cover Table of Contents 6 Notes on Contributors 8 Introduction: The Sweep of Transgressive Romanticism • Larry H. Peer 10 1 Texts of Recovery: Post-Hegelian Reflections on the Work of Romantic Lyric • Richard Eldridge 19 2 “Utterance Sacrilegious”: Poetic Transgression in Keats’s Hyperion Fragments • James H. Donelan 36 3 Between Poetry and Music: Keats’s “To Autumn” and Beethoven’s Cavatina • Lloyd Davies 51 4 “Too Anglican Altogether”: Benjamin Bailey’s Transgressive Conservatism in Poetical Sketches of the Interior of Ceylon • Thomas H. Schmid 70 5 Finding Fulfillment through Submission; or, How the French Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Islam: Michel Houellebecq’s Soumission • Hollie Markland Harder 85 6 Transgressive Dialectic: Kant, Hegel, and Beethoven’s Late Piano Sonatas • Matt Kershaw 101 7 Future Founding: The Romantic Transformation of Epic • Kevin M. Saylor 124 8 Freed By a Zombie: Limitations of Art in Hans Christian Andersen’s “Det har Zombien gjort” • Lori Yamato 142 9 Byronic Indictments: Opposing Transgressions in Byron’s Cain • Richard Johnston 160 10 Taming Wild Readers: Caleb Williams and the Outlaw Tradition • Cassandra Falke 179 11 The Work’s the Thing: Materializing the Romantic Play-Aesthetic on Zacharias Werner’s Stage • Amy Emm 198