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 EngellIntroductionShun-liang Chao and John Michael CorriganPart I Realist Romanticism 1. Romantic Walking and Railway RealismRachel Bowlby2. The Use and Abuse of Romance: Realist Revisions of Walter Scott in England, France, and GermanyGeoffrey Baker3. Chekhov on the Meaning of Life: After Romanticism and NihilismYuri CorriganPart II Fin-de-Siècle Romanticism 4. Keats Gone Wilde: Wilde’s Romantic Self-Fashioning at the Fin de SiècleYa-Feng Wu5. Delacroix, Signac, and the Aesthetic Revolution in Fin-de-siècle FranceShao-Chien Tseng6. Mediating Richard Wagner and Henry Bishop: Frederick Corder and the Different Legacies of German and English Romantic OperaDavid ChandlerPart III (Post)Modern Romanticism7. Platonism, Its Heirs, and the Last RomanticArthur Versluis8. Vexed Meditation: Romantic Idealism in Coleridge and Its Afterlife in Bataille and IrigarayJustin Prystash9. "You have to be a transparent eyeball": Transcendental Afterlives in Matthew Weiner’s Mad MenJohn Michael CorriganPart IV Environmental Romanticism10. Tracing Romanticism in the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Reading of Ludwig Tieck’s Rune MountainCaroline Schaumann11. The Eye of the Earth: Nonhuman Vision from Blake to Contemporary EcocriticismSophie Laniel-Musitelli12. "Indistinctness is my forte": Turner, Ruskin, and the Climate of ArtCarmen CasaliggiPar V Oriental Romanticism13. ReOrienting Romanticism: The Legacy of Indian Romantic Poetry in EnglishSteve Clark14. Grafting German Romanticism onto the Chinese Revolution: Goethe, Guo Morou, and the Pursuit of Self-TranscendenceJohannes D. Kaminski15. Two Chinese Wordsworths: The Reception of Wordsworth in Twentieth-Century ChinaLi Ou16. "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.