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This large and ambitious study reinterprets the evolution of British and German Romanticism as a progress through three successive 'moods.' By this term Pfau here means emotion "read in its embodied manifestation as the 'voice' of a historical moment, rather than that of a given individual." In constructing this reading, he draws on a multifaceted philosophical tradition influenced most strongly by Heidegger and Kant, but also by such wide-ranging figures as Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Adorno, among others. The result is a new understanding of the basis of the Romantic poet's voice (picking up on the German etymological link between Stimmung, 'mood,' and Stimme, 'voice') as a holistic cultural condition not localizable as either content or form, textual or psychic. This is a work for scholars and advanced students, one that is likely to stimulate considerable reaction and make a significant and enduring contribution to Romantic studies.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Romantic Moods
• Subtitle: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840
• Author: Thomas Pfau
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 592
• EAN: 9780801881978
• ISBN: 0801881978
• ID: 04709577
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Weight: 907 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 37 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. December 2005

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