The Romanticists
23 Jun 2024 13:56Political, religious and moral views. Scientific interests. Attitudes to technology. And the Enlightenment. And Nietzsche. And artistic modernism.
- See:
- The Romanticists themselves. They read well. I lean towards the Shelleys, George Sand, Dumas, Pushkin.
- Jacques Barzun
- "To the Rescue of Romanticism", The American Scholar (Spring 1940) [Online. Summary essay connected to his book.]
- Classic, Romantic and Modern
- Berlioz and His Century (one-volume abridgement of Berlioz and the Romantic Century omitting detailed music descriptions and criticism)
- Hector Berlioz, Evenings with the Orchestra (trans. Jacques Barzun. I strongly suspect this was one of Sterling's sources for "The Beautiful and the Sublime.")
- Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey [Affectionate contemporary parody]
- To read or see:
- Delacroix
- Caspar David Friedrich
- Gericault
- Heine
- Hoffmann
- Michelet
- Schiller
- Secondary sources to read:
- Auden, The Enchafed Flood
- Sarah Burns, Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
- Leon Chai, Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era
- Louis Dupré, The Quest of the Absolute: Birth and Decline of European Romanticism [Review in NDPR]
- H. J. Jackson, Those Who Write for Immortality [Account by Carlin Romano]
- Karl Kroeber
- Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind
- Romantic Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Michael Lowy and Robert Sayre, Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity
- Praz, The Romantic Agony
- Richard C. Sha, Imagination and Science in Romanticism
- James B. Twitchell, The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature
- George S. Williamson, The Longing for Myth in Germany: Culture, Religion, and Politics from Romanticism to Nietzsche