Romanticism and Knowledge

Far from being a mere countermovement to Enlightenment, Romanticism is distinguished by a sustained reflection on what constitutes knowledge and what its borders are. The nature of knowledge, whether it is an 'art' or a 'science,' whether it should be 'philosophical,' 'historical' or 'empirical,'– these issues are very much under negotiation during the Romantic period. Assembling selected papers from the 15th International Symposium of the German Society for English Romanticism (GER) – a joint conference with the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) – this volume explores how knowledge of the most diverse disciplines has been represented and refracted in various genres of Romantic writing. Contributors: Richard Holmes, Tilottama Rajan, Paul Hamilton, Ian Duncan, Nicholas Halmi, Mark J. Bruhn, Christoph Bode, Noah Heringman, Mihaela Irmia, Norbert Lennartz, Catherine Ross, Maximiliaan van Woudenberg, Rolf Lessenich, Timothy Heimlich, David Duff, Ralf Haekel, Pascal Fischer, Noriko Naohara, Timothy Michael, Jennifer Wawrzinek, Arkady Plotnitsky, Joseph Albernaz, Eugene Stelzig, Timothy Whelan, Johannes Schlegel, Tamara Gosta, Mirka Horová, Frederick Burwick, Sebastian Domsch, Theresa M. Kelley, Stefanie Fricke