Romantic Legacies Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts

Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts presents the most wide-ranging treatment of Romantic regenerations, covering the cross-pollination between the arts or between art and thought within or across the borders of Germany, Britain, France, the US, Russia, India, China, and Japan. Each chapter in the volume examines a legacy or afterlife in a comparative context to demonstrate ongoing Romantic legacies as fully as possible in their complexity and richness. The volume provides readers a lens through which to understand Romanticism not merely as an artistic heritage but as a dynamic site of intellectual engagement that crosses nations and time periods and entails no less than the shaping of our global cultural currents.

ForewordJames Engell IntroductionShun-liang Chao and John Michael Corrigan Part I Realist Romanticism 1. Romantic Walking and Railway RealismRachel Bowlby 2. The Use and Abuse of Romance: Realist Revisions of Walter Scott in England, France, and GermanyGeoffrey Baker 3. Chekhov on the Meaning of Life: After Romanticism and NihilismYuri Corrigan Part II Fin-de-Siècle Romanticism 4. Keats Gone Wilde: Wilde’s Romantic Self-Fashioning at the Fin de SiècleYa-Feng Wu 5. Delacroix, Signac, and the Aesthetic Revolution in Fin-de-siècle FranceShao-Chien Tseng 6. Mediating Richard Wagner and Henry Bishop: Frederick Corder and the Different Legacies of German and English Romantic OperaDavid Chandler Part III (Post)Modern Romanticism 7. Platonism, Its Heirs, and the Last RomanticArthur Versluis 8. Vexed Meditation: Romantic Idealism in Coleridge and Its Afterlife in Bataille and IrigarayJustin Prystash 9. "You have to be a transparent eyeball": Transcendental Afterlives in Matthew Weiner’s Mad MenJohn Michael Corrigan Part IV Environmental Romanticism 10. Tracing Romanticism in the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Reading of Ludwig Tieck’s Rune MountainCaroline Schaumann 11. The Eye of the Earth: Nonhuman Vision from Blake to Contemporary EcocriticismSophie Laniel-Musitelli 12. "Indistinctness is my forte": Turner, Ruskin, and the Climate of ArtCarmen Casaliggi Par V Oriental Romanticism 13. ReOrienting Romanticism: The Legacy of Indian Romantic Poetry in EnglishSteve Clark 14. Grafting German Romanticism onto the Chinese Revolution: Goethe, Guo Morou, and the Pursuit of Self-TranscendenceJohannes D. Kaminski 15. Two Chinese Wordsworths: The Reception of Wordsworth in Twentieth-Century ChinaLi Ou 16. "The world must be made Romantic": The Sentimental Grotesque in Tetsuya Ishida’s "Self-Portraits of Others" Shun-liang Chao

Shun-liang Chao, PhD is Associate Professor of English and Comparative literature at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. John Michael Corrigan, PhD is Associate Professor of American literature and digital humanities at National Chengchi University, Taiwan.