Romantic Legacies

Shun-liang Chao, PhD is Associate Professor of English and Comparative literature at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. John Michael Corrigan, PhD is Associate Professor of American literature and digital humanities at National Chengchi University, Taiwan.

• Part I Realist Romanticism 1. Romantic Walking and Railway Realism 2. The Use and Abuse of Romance: Realist Revisions of Walter Scott in England, France, and Germany 3. Chekhov on the Meaning of Life: After Romanticism and Nihilism Part II Fin-de-Siècle Romanticism 4. Keats Gone Wilde: Wilde’s Romantic Self-Fashioning at the Fin de Siècle 5. Delacroix, Signac, and the Aesthetic Revolution in Fin-de-siècle France 6. Mediating Richard Wagner and Henry Bishop: Frederick Corder and the Different Legacies of German and English Romantic Opera Part III (Post)Modern Romanticism 7. Platonism, Its Heirs, and the Last Romantic 8. Vexed Meditation: Romantic Idealism in Coleridge and Its Afterlife in Bataille and Irigaray 9. "You have to be a transparent eyeball": Transcendental Afterlives in Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men Part IV Environmental Romanticism 10. Tracing Romanticism in the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Reading of Ludwig Tieck’s Rune Mountain 11. The Eye of the Earth: Nonhuman Vision from Blake to Contemporary Ecocriticism 12. "Indistinctness is my forte": Turner, Ruskin, and the Climate of Art Part V Oriental Romanticism 13. ReOrienting Romanticism: The Legacy of Indian Romantic Poetry in English 14. Grafting German Romanticism onto the Chinese Revolution: Goethe, Guo Morou, and the Pursuit of Self-Transcendence 15. Two Chinese Wordsworths: The Reception of Wordsworth in Twentieth-Century China 16. "The world must be made Romantic": The Sentimental Grotesque in Tetsuya Ishida’s "Self-Portraits of Others"

Romantic Legacies is an important contribution to our expanded understanding of the legacies of romanticism. The essays in this collection range widely across geography, chronology and artistic form to explore the ongoing resonances of the romantic impulse across cultures.Andrew Taylor, University of Edinburgh