Romantic moods : paranoia, trauma, and melancholy, 1790-1840 / Thomas Pfau.
Romantic moods : paranoia, trauma, and melancholy, 1790-1840 / Thomas Pfau.
Romantic moods : paranoia, trauma, and melancholy, 1790-1840 / Thomas Pfau.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2005.
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N820.9145/10
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xii, 572 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Feeling, self-awareness, and aesthetic formalization after Kant -- Anxious inspiration : radical knowledge in Godwin and some contemporaries -- Paranoia historicized: the dialectics of treason and political representation in 1794 -- "Long before the time of which I speak" : traumatic history and lyr...
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2005.
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Maryland
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c2005.
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"Pfau focuses on three specific paradigms of emotive experience: paranoia, trauma, and melancholy. Along the trajectory of Romantic thought paranoia characterizes the disintegration of traditional models of causation and representation during the French Revolution; trauma, the radical political, cultural, and economic restructuring of Central Europ...
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Romantic moods : paranoia, trauma, and melancholy, 1790-1840 / Thomas Pfau.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [533]-559) and index.
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c2005.
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N820.9145/10
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0801881978 (alk. paper)
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820.9145
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991021485959702626
