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Romanticism in the Age of World Wars: Introduction to the Forum

Citation:

de and de Graef, Brecht Groote Ortwin . 2022. “Romanticism in the Age of World Wars: Introduction to the Forum”. Partial Answers 20(1): 55-64. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/843019.

Date Published:

9 January 2022

Abstract:

The forum “Romanticism in the Age of World Wars” reflects the recent surge of critical interest in scholarship at the intersection of Romanticism, literature, and war. The chief aim of this Introduction is to outline and situate the most important recent and historical trends in this developing field. Proposing a historicist view on Romanticism which works towards an expansive conception of post-Romanticism, we also argue that Romantic-era literary and cultural production was actively shaped by the novel experiences of global and total war in ways that have persisted to the present day. Brief examples, taken from key critics and primary materials by Coleridge, Clausewitz, and Montgomery, are discussed to support this argument. The article concludes by surveying the five contributions that compose the forum, noting the connections between their arguments.

October 2021: Brecht de Groote is Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, within the Research Group on Translation and Culture, at the University of Ghent. He previously held the Susan Manning Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities of the University of Edinburgh, as well as (post)doctoral positions in the English Department at the University of Leuven. His research situates British Romanticism in its broad European context by studying translation, media and late style.

 

Ortwin de Graef, professor of English Literature at KU Leuven, is the author of two books on Paul de Man and has published widely on Romantic and post-Romantic writing ranging from Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold and George Eliot through Joseph Conrad, Isaac Rosenberg, Virginia Woolf and Pearl S. Buck to Hafid Bouazza, David Grossman, Alan Warner and A. L. Kennedy. His principal research interests are the Very-Long-Nineteenth-Century ideologies of sympathy, science and the State reflected and refracted through the transmission technologies of the literary.

 

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