Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840

by Thomas Pfau

Thomas Pfau reinterprets the evolution of British and German Romanticism as a progress through three successive dominant moods, each manifested in the "voice" of an historical moment. Drawing on a multifaceted philosophical tradition ranging from Kant to Hegel to Heidegger--incorporating as well the psychosocial analyses of Freud, Benjamin, and Adorno--Pfau develops a new understanding of the Romantic writer's voice as the formal encryption of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801881978
• ISBN13: 9780801881978
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher