Romantic Realisms: Speculative Reconfigurations of Literature, Philosophy, and Science in German Romanticism (Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850, 27, Band 27) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1805966782 ISBN 13: 9781805966784

Verlag: Liverpool University Press, 2026

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This collection of essays builds on recent scholarship on German philosophies of nature (Naturphilosophie) to argue for a Romantic aesthetics grounded in nature and the real. It brings researchers from philosophy, aesthetics, and literary studies into dialogue around key writers like F. W. J. Schelling, Novalis, and the Schlegel brothers, and pushes back against some of the conventional formalist and psychologizing frameworks through which Romanticism has been viewed traditionally. Instead, these contributions develop a picture of Romanticism as not only having aimed to ‘represent’ things conceptually or linguistically, but as capable of acting on, existing within, and indeed participating in processes of worldmaking. The resulting image is of a Romanticism pushing at the boundaries of materialist and idealist conceptualizations of the real in equal measure. The contributions fall along two main axes, represented by two sections and an afterword. The first section addresses Schelling directly and explores the potential of his philosophy for literary and aesthetic theory. The second section brings Schelling into dialogue with literary practices around 1800 to address broader ramifications for our understanding of authors like Novalis, Hoffmann, Coleridge, and Droste-Hülshoff, also seeking to establish the contemporary viability of Schelling’s thought and its long-overlooked cultural ramifications, including in contemporary environmental thinking.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Steven Lydon is Assistant Professor in Humanities at Shanghai Tech University, and formerly Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.

Barry Murnane is Professor of German and Comparative Literatures and Cultures at the University of Oxford

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• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1805966782
• ISBN 13: 9781805966784
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Lydon Steven, Murnane Barry
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