...This chapter focuses on the disappearance of political philosophy in recent years and the prevalence of theories that arose in opposition to the Enlightenment. It talks about Romanticism as the earliest and most successful antagonist of the Enlightenment, which has numerous successors...

... and meanest of the rhyming train,” the poet and the poetry “all beautiful in woe,” influenced the Anglo-American Romantic poetics that later Black poets recast as inherently antiblack. Finally, the chapter investigates how Wheatley's poetics prefigured both Romanticism and the Black nineteenth-century...

... Derham. The chapter considers Derham as an outsized figure of the future, a woman whose transformative Stoic vision demands not a few tame lines but the gift of prophecy itself. It explores Stoic Romanticism as a vanguard movement, the shape of a future in the works but still to come. Austen Jane...

... the “unique problems” that Weber encountered in the Indian Territory, including questions of tribal membership or citizenship, and land allotment. It then analyzes Weber's claim that the coming of modern industrial civilization led to the rapid disappearance of the romanticized past. As he put...

... romanticism and adventurous spirit of Karl May's depictions of the American frontier, and on the other side was the cultural criticism as expressed in Ferdinand Kürnberger's novella Der Amerika-Müde. The chapter then considers how the American experience influenced Weber's thinking...

... intrinsically interesting, either as a matter of morality or as a matter of social psychology. Here lies the heart of the contrast with Romanticism. The chapter considers Immanuel Kant's views on property rights and compares them with those of G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and Thomas Carlyle. Mill John Stuart...

...This chapter assesses Germaine de Staël's reckoning with the “new genres or sub-genres characteristic of realism,” the Bildungsroman and its British analogues, the Anglo-Irish national tale and Scottish historical novel, formed in the “novelistic revolution” of European Romanticism. Modeling...

...Histories of German philosophy in the nineteenth century typically focus on its first half—when Hegel, idealism, and Romanticism dominated. By contrast, the remainder of the century, after Hegel's death, has been relatively neglected because it has been seen as a period of stagnation and decline...

... that Romantic-era writers devoted a surprising amount of attention to Stoicism and its dispassionate mandate. The book explores the subterranean but vital life of Stoic philosophy in British and American Romanticism, from William Wordsworth to Ralph Waldo Emerson. The book shows that the Romantic era—the period...

...This chapter highlights the place of romanticism and Protestantism in William Morris's socialism. His romanticism led him to seek self-realization through an art based on naturalness and harmony. His Protestantism led him to do so in the everyday worlds of work and home. Morris inherited from John...

... romanticism initially entered British socialism through the wandering scholar Thomas Davidson, who inspired the Fellowship of the New Life. When Davidson continued on his travels, several of the socialists associated with the Fellowship took their ideals out of London and into the provinces. The most notable...

...This chapter suggests that Ralph Waldo Emerson's gnomic essays reflect, theorize, and call for a bold American extension of the Stoic Romanticism. In a late journal, Emerson claimed that the doctrines of “Zeno & the Stoic sect” could be reduced to one thought: self-reliance. It argues...

...This chapter discusses the interplay of palingenesis, history, and politics. The concept of palingenesis is associated with the early nineteenth-century concept of romanticism and a cluster of claims about the values, culture, and historical legacies of the assorted northern and Germanic peoples...

...This chapter explains the notions of romanticism and classicism. It provides an overview of the origin of humanitarianism that is tied to Saint-Simonianism's moral and religious content. Saint-Simonianism could also be associated with Hegel and Hegelianism, which in turn correlates to the political...

...This chapter investigates how Romanticism found its first clear expression in the aesthetic revolt against the Enlightenment. It discusses the awakening of the “unhappy consciousness” even before Romanticism appeared in the literary world, which was at odds with society and every established faith...

...This chapter explores what answers can be offered to counsels of social despair. It explains why Romanticism refuses to analyze the social world with any degree of thoroughness. It also discusses how Christian fatalism subjects modern history to an excess of simplification in order to satisfy its...

... about Weber's visit to the United States—what he did, what he saw, whom he met and why, and how these experiences profoundly influenced Weber's thought on immigration, capitalism, science and culture, Romanticism, race, diversity, Protestantism, and modernity. It traces Weber's impact on the development...

... their message against Romanticism. On “Tocqueville in literature,” we have followed a trajectory that took us from his own question—“Is a kind of authority possible in democratic literature?”—to a consideration of the context in which that question was raised: the rise of Romanticism, the logics...

...This chapter discusses prose poetry's connection to Romanticism. Although contemporary writers take the fragmentary nature of the prose poem for granted, it was once an important innovation to celebrate fragmentary literary forms — an innovation that took hold with the Romantic movement. Given...

...This chapter points out how the “unhappy consciousness” does not just assert itself against the laws of reason and nature. It mentions the struggles of Prometheus that are part of the revolt of Romanticism against “things as they are.” It also explains the restless longing of Romanticism that finds...