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Romanticism and the City

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Larry H. Peer

    1. Brigham Young University, USA

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Part of the book series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters (19CMLL)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: The Infernal and Celestial City of Romanticism

    1. The Infernal and Celestial City of Romanticism

      • Larry H. Peer
      Pages 1-5

  3. Theories of the City

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Nerve Theory, Sensibility, and Romantic Metrosexuals

      • Michelle Faubert
      Pages 9-23

    3. Wordsworth’s Double-Take

      • William Galperin
      Pages 25-41

    4. John Galt, Happy Colonialist: The Case of “The Apostate; or, Atlantis Destroyed”

      • Jeffrey Cass
      Pages 43-53

    5. The Gothic Chapbook and the Urban Reader

      • Diane Long Hoeveler
      Pages 55-72

    6. Romantic Science and the City

      • Marilyn Gaull
      Pages 73-84

  4. Continental Cities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. Phenomenal Beauty: Rousseau in Venice

      • Nancy Yousef
      Pages 87-104

    3. E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Marketplace Vision of Berlin

      • Alexander Schlutz
      Pages 105-134

    4. Renzo in Milan

      • Ernesto Livorni
      Pages 135-155

    5. Rome Above Rome: Nikolai Gogol’s Romantic Vision of the Eternal City

      • Tatiana V. Barnett
      Pages 157-178

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 261-283
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Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broad theoretical issues in European Romanticism at large.

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  • Brigham Young University, USA

    Larry H. Peer

About the editor

LARRY H. PEER Professor of Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University, USA. He is the Executive Director of the International Conference on Romanticism, editor of the journal Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism, and the author of numerous books and essays in the field of Romanticism studies.

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