[PDF] Romanticism And The Human Sciences eBook

Author : Maureen N. McLane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2000-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139426877

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This study, published in 2000, examines the dialogue between Romantic poetry and the human sciences of the period. Maureen McLane reveals how Romantic writers participated in a new-found consciousness of human beings as a species, by analysing their work in relation to discourses on moral philosophy, political economy and anthropology. Writers such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley explored the possibilities and limits of human being, language and hope. They engaged with the work of theorisers of the human sciences - Malthus, Godwin and Burke among them. The book offers original readings of canonical works, including Lyrical Ballads, Frankenstein and Prometheus Unbound, to show how the Romantics internalised and transformed ideas about the imagination, perfectibility, immortality and population which so energised contemporary moral and political debates. McLane provides a defence of poetry in both Romantic and contemporary theoretical terms, reformulating the predicament of Romanticism in general and poetry in particular.

Author : Scott Masson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351149784

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The human sciences established and developed in the nineteenth century have slowly disintegrated. It is an ironic end. It was in the name of the greater legitimacy of more universal psychological criteria that its architects disavowed the traditional theological standard for valuing and evaluating human words and deeds. With hindsight, we can see that universality was indeed gained, but only at the cost of alienating any sense of common legitimacy. Harold Bloom, defending the canon largely in the humanising, 'moral sense' convention of critics operating since Matthew Arnold, has resolutely maintained the common legitimacy of aesthetic value against the claims of particular interest groups. But the very universality attached to aesthetic value is at odds with the world of common sense, and thus lies at the root of the problem. To complicate matters, this universality has been understood as a traditional criterion. A more radical treatment of the subject is needed. This study begins by surveying the field of modern hermeneutics. Noting its repeated crises of self-legitimisation, it traces these to circular beliefs bequeathed by Romanticism that human nature is self-begetting, and can thus be known intimately and autonomously. After providing a historical overview of how human nature had been understood, the focus shifts to the attack in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria on Wordsworth's 1802 Preface to Lyrical Ballads, and to a reading of some key Romantic texts. It reads Coleridge's famous definition of the imagination as an attack on Romantic hermeneutics, rooted in the traditional view that man has been created in Imago Dei.

Author : Dr. Andrew Cunningham
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,1 MB
Release : 1990-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521356855

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This book presents a series of essays which focus on the role of Romantic philosophy and ideology in the sciences.

Author : Richard C. Sha
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1421439832

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Sha concludes that both fields benefited from thinking about how imagination could cooperate with reason—but that this partnership was impossible unless imagination's penchant for fantasy could be contained.

Author : Noel Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 2008-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521869379

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Romantic poets, notably Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge and Keats, were deeply interested in how perception and sensory experience operate, and in the connections between sense-perception and aesthetic experience. Noel Jackson tracks this preoccupation through the Romantic period and beyond, both in relation to late eighteenth-century human sciences, and in the context of momentous social transformations in the period of the French Revolution. Combining close readings of the poems with interdisciplinary research into the history of the human sciences, Noel Jackson sheds light on Romantic efforts to define how art is experienced in relation to the newly emerging sciences of the mind and shows the continued relevance of these ideas to our own habits of cultural and historical criticism today. This book will be of interest not only to scholars of Romanticism, but also to those interested in the intellectual interrelations between literature and science.

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1107166683

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This book studies the rise and nature of historicist approaches to life, race, character, language, political economy, and empire. Arguing that Victorians understood life and society as developing historically in a way that made history central to public culture, it will appeal to those interested in Victorian Britain, historiography, and intellectual history.

Author : Stephanie O'Rourke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 1316519023

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Innovative, alternative account of romanticism, exploring how art and science together contested the evidentiary authority of the human body.

Author : Tim Fulford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521829199

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Examines the massive impact of colonial exploration on British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s.

Author : John Tresch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0226812200

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Introduction: Mechanical Romanticism -- DEVICES OF COSMIC UNITY -- Ampère's Experiments: Contours of a Cosmic Cubstance -- Humboldt's Instruments: Even the Tools Will Be Free -- Arago's Daguerreotype: The Labor Theory of Knowledge -- SPECTACLES OF CREATION AND METAMORPHOSIS -- The Devil's Opera: Fantastic Physiospiritualism -- Monsters, Machine-Men, Magicians: The Automaton in the Garden -- ENGINEERS OF ARTIFICIAL PARADISES -- Saint-Simonian Engines: Love and Conversions -- Leroux's Pianotype: The Organogenesis of Humanity -- Comte's Calendar: From Infinite Universe to Closed World -- Conclusion: Afterlives of the Romantic Machine.