#romanticism — Public Fediverse posts

In "Alimentary Orientalism" Yin Yuan follows the politics of tea, sugar & opium in 18th & 19th c Britain: How did British authors portray Otherness & the consumption of the Orient?

#PostColonialStudies #Orientalism #FoodStudies #EnglishLiterature #LiteraryStudies #Romanticism #VictorianLiterature

Yu Liu's book "From Chinese Cosmology to English Romanticism" covers Anglo-Chinese relations 1600-1830 and their influence (via Spinoza) on #RomanticLiterature - e.g. #Coleridge & #Wordsworth - & art & landscape gardening

#Romanticism #EnglishLiterature #China #philosophy #CulturalStudies

Maybe a trip to the #LakeDistrict next? Joanna E. Taylor & Ian N. Gregory present this innovative, interdisciplinary study bringing together #LiteraryStudies on #Literature & #History of the Lake District 1622-1900, with tools from geography & #digitalhumanities

#spatialhumanities #Romanticism

New book alert 🔔🔔🔔
Gavin Hopps applies theories such as #AffectTheory #EcoTheology #NewMaterialism & #ReEnchantment in his post-secular re-reading of the literature of the #Romantics

#Romanticism #RomanticLiterature #LiteraryStudies

Catalogue link: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1928707394

Musical Interlude: Here's another long-form video to play while you're doing something else, and it's another Berlioz symphony. This was written at the encouragement of Paganini and is based on a poem by Lord Byron, so it's got crazy Romantic cred.

The four movements depict various scenes in Italy witnessed by Byron's Childe Harold: A scene in the mountains, a march of pilgrims, a serenade by a mountaineer, and finally, an orgy of bandits. (Hey, it's Berlioz AND Byron, what do you expect?)

"Harold en Italie," composed by Hector Berlioz, performed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4NC4E5RXik&t=35s

#MusicalInterlude #ClassicalMusic #HectorBerlioz #LordByron #NiccoloPaganini #Symphony #Romanticism

Read essays on subliminal dream creations in 200 years of #Gothic works - from #Coleridge & #Walpole to #Piranesi #Goya & #Fuseli & #MaryWollstonecraft to #vampires #Marxism & videogames such as #TheWitcher & #Bloodbourne

Find the book here:
https://s.gwdg.de/B3pPBe

#LiteraryStudies #GamesStudies #Romanticism #RomanticLiterature

French-German writer, officer, poet and botanist Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838) tells us about the dangers of letting genAI take over things that are truly ours.

Here's Peter Schlemihl being offered uncountable riches in return for handing over his shadow:

“During the short time when I enjoyed the happiness of being near you, I observed, Sir,—will you allow me to say so—I observed, with unutterable admiration, the beautiful, beautiful shadow in the sun, which with a certain noble contempt, and perhaps without being aware of it, you threw off from your feet; forgive me this, I confess, too daring intrusion, but should you be inclined to transfer it to me?”

The story does not end well for Schlemihl.

Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (1814). Translated into English by John Bowring (3rd edition 1861). page 31

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21943/2194

#noAI #noLLM #DoNotSellYourShadow #AdelbertVonChamisso #PeterSchlemihl #RomanticLiterature
#Romanticism

Excellent paper by Paris Weber to conclude a fabulous #NASSR2025 on Thomas Gray's representation of nature as integral to the perception of time's flow and human memory in his #EtonOde and #Elegy, drawing a connection from Burnet to Hardy.

#18thC #Romanticism #ThomasGrayArchive #poetry

Sneaking into this #MonsterMonday thread thanks to its name is
"William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love" by @philiphoare.bsky.social
Why does #WilliamBlake continue to inspire poets, artists & filmmakers? Find out in this enthusiastic volume

#Romanticism #RomanticLiterature #LiteraryStudies

8 years ago #OTD, David Bowie died.
This essay collection, ed. by James Rovira, connects #DavidBowie & #Romanticism, exploring ideas of #androgyny, space, music & #RomanticLiterature & more!

And what a perfect #mashup book cover in the #CasparDavidFriedrich year 2024! #CDF250

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Find the book here in our collection @subugoe

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1842024744
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Adelbert von Chamisso,
Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (1814).

Translated into English by John Bowring (3rd edition 1861). page 31

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21943/21943-h/21943-h.htm

Thanks to Project Gutenberg:
@gutenberg_org

#AdelbertVonChamisso #PeterSchlemihl #RomanticLiterature
#Romanticism

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Romanticism is the elated fascination with our ability to tear away the veil of familiarity from things. Gothic is our mounting unease at what might lie behind it. #romanticism #gothic #RomanticLiterature #poetry #literature #philosophy