Exorbitant Enlightenment: Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations
Autor Alexander Regieren Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 dec 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780198827122
ISBN-10: 0198827121
Pagini: 266
Ilustrații: 9 halftones
Dimensiuni: 165 x 241 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0198827121
Pagini: 266
Ilustrații: 9 halftones
Dimensiuni: 165 x 241 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
This book deserves our attention...It offers original research, but it also critically engages and on a very high level, too with other approaches and diverging readings. This debate is even continued in the footnotes, which serve not only documentary purposes but offer substantial additional material. And Regier's own translations from the German are truly exquisite.
...the book recognizes the fundamental role of religious and philosophical trends too often ignored in the literature on the period. This contribution will be of great interest to those working on religion and literature, as well as intellectual history, during the period.
The year 2018 was already a golden moment in Blake studies, marked as it was by the publication of Alexander Regier's roundbreaking Exorbitant Enlightenment: Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations (OUP).
This contribution will be of great interest to those working on religion and literature, as well as intellectual history, during the period.
Regier's study is a beautiful and important challenge ... [He] contends that Anglo-German relations change the way in which one understands both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book is essential to scholars of the Enlightenment and Romanticism.
Introducing us to an eighteenth-century Anglo-German culture in London we had forgotten, one that enriches our understanding of the relations among several innovative thinkers, Regier has made a real contribution to knowledge.
Regier leaves us in no doubt that . . . the vast residue of subsequently unapproved or ignored doctrine . . . made possible the likes of Blake and Hamann. And in these our times, it is heartening to be reminded that Albion's famous prophet might have known more than a few words of German.
Exorbitant Enlightenment is a compelling work of intellectual history.
This wondrous book gauges long unrecognized eighteenth-century transactions between British and German writers ... Regier's spellbinding story of an alternative Enlightenment captures what isn't there along with what is.
While this wonderous book gauges long unrecognized eighteenth-century transactions between British and German writers, its intellectual and imaginative scope is indeed "exorbitant"
This is one of the most compelling books that I have read for some time. It deserves to be read and taken with the utmost seriousness not only by scholars of Blake, Hamann, Fuseli, and Lavater, but also by anyone interested in the shift from Enlightenment to Romantic thought in literature, philosophy, theology, and culture in eighteenth century England.
Exorbitant Enlightenment will create something very important and timely: it will introduce a virus into our narrow and well-trod traditions of scholarship and habits of thinking with respect to our histories and theories of culture. It will join significant initiatives and projects which direct sceptical and challenging interventions at, for example, the nature of the human as distinct from the animal, the inevitability of the global as a reconciliation or agglutination of the national, the singularity and integrity of the local or specific as they determine gender or identity.
'It is a familiar fact that no Englishman read German literature in the eighteenth century.' So wrote Virginia Woolf's father, Leslie Stephen. Regiers original study confutes this claim, along with its obverse, that the Germans were not reading the English. He shows that when Anglo-German literary relations are properly exposed, new figures emerge in fresh ways around his central diptych of Blake and Hamann -Caspar Lavater, Henry Fuseli, Solomon Gessner, the Moravians-'exorbitant' figures all, and fascinating. These new 'constellations,' Regier further shows, mean that some entrenched understandings of the relationship of Enlightenment and Romanticism need to be rethought.
Regier's first-order discovery of Anglo-German circuits of thought about language, religion, sexuality, nature, and social formation reveals an elaborate information highway. One of the many triumphs of this study is that it expands our field of vision even as it sharpens the focus on key practices within that field. With remarkable clarity, economy, and narrative brio, Exorbitant Enlightenment tells a truly gripping story about the most difficult artists and thinkers of the age. Like a high tide that floats all boats, Regier's contribution raises up for new appraisal the many writers we thought we had understood. Readers will close this book and say to themselves, all is changed, changed utterly.
...the book recognizes the fundamental role of religious and philosophical trends too often ignored in the literature on the period. This contribution will be of great interest to those working on religion and literature, as well as intellectual history, during the period.
The year 2018 was already a golden moment in Blake studies, marked as it was by the publication of Alexander Regier's roundbreaking Exorbitant Enlightenment: Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations (OUP).
This contribution will be of great interest to those working on religion and literature, as well as intellectual history, during the period.
Regier's study is a beautiful and important challenge ... [He] contends that Anglo-German relations change the way in which one understands both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book is essential to scholars of the Enlightenment and Romanticism.
Introducing us to an eighteenth-century Anglo-German culture in London we had forgotten, one that enriches our understanding of the relations among several innovative thinkers, Regier has made a real contribution to knowledge.
Regier leaves us in no doubt that . . . the vast residue of subsequently unapproved or ignored doctrine . . . made possible the likes of Blake and Hamann. And in these our times, it is heartening to be reminded that Albion's famous prophet might have known more than a few words of German.
Exorbitant Enlightenment is a compelling work of intellectual history.
This wondrous book gauges long unrecognized eighteenth-century transactions between British and German writers ... Regier's spellbinding story of an alternative Enlightenment captures what isn't there along with what is.
While this wonderous book gauges long unrecognized eighteenth-century transactions between British and German writers, its intellectual and imaginative scope is indeed "exorbitant"
This is one of the most compelling books that I have read for some time. It deserves to be read and taken with the utmost seriousness not only by scholars of Blake, Hamann, Fuseli, and Lavater, but also by anyone interested in the shift from Enlightenment to Romantic thought in literature, philosophy, theology, and culture in eighteenth century England.
Exorbitant Enlightenment will create something very important and timely: it will introduce a virus into our narrow and well-trod traditions of scholarship and habits of thinking with respect to our histories and theories of culture. It will join significant initiatives and projects which direct sceptical and challenging interventions at, for example, the nature of the human as distinct from the animal, the inevitability of the global as a reconciliation or agglutination of the national, the singularity and integrity of the local or specific as they determine gender or identity.
'It is a familiar fact that no Englishman read German literature in the eighteenth century.' So wrote Virginia Woolf's father, Leslie Stephen. Regiers original study confutes this claim, along with its obverse, that the Germans were not reading the English. He shows that when Anglo-German literary relations are properly exposed, new figures emerge in fresh ways around his central diptych of Blake and Hamann -Caspar Lavater, Henry Fuseli, Solomon Gessner, the Moravians-'exorbitant' figures all, and fascinating. These new 'constellations,' Regier further shows, mean that some entrenched understandings of the relationship of Enlightenment and Romanticism need to be rethought.
Regier's first-order discovery of Anglo-German circuits of thought about language, religion, sexuality, nature, and social formation reveals an elaborate information highway. One of the many triumphs of this study is that it expands our field of vision even as it sharpens the focus on key practices within that field. With remarkable clarity, economy, and narrative brio, Exorbitant Enlightenment tells a truly gripping story about the most difficult artists and thinkers of the age. Like a high tide that floats all boats, Regier's contribution raises up for new appraisal the many writers we thought we had understood. Readers will close this book and say to themselves, all is changed, changed utterly.
Notă biografică
Alexander Regier is Associate Professor of English at Rice University and editor of the scholarly journal SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. He is the author of Fracture and Fragmentation in British Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2010), the co-editor of Wordsworth's Poetic Theory: Knowledge, Language, Experience (Palgrave, 2010), and has edited special journal issues on "Mobilities" and "Genealogies". Dr Regier has published widely on William Blake, Johann Georg Hamann, William Wordsworth, Walter Benjamin, ruins, contemporary poetry, and the aesthetics of sport. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.