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ROMANTICISM AND MODERNITY: Conceptions of Arts, Society and Politics in the Modern World

By :- Sharmistha Lahiri , Claudia Wenner

Edited By :- Sharmistha Lahiri

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Pages: viii+216

Format: HB

ISBN-13: 978-81-7305-328-3

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 15cm x 22cm

Product Year: 2007

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The book offers a collection of essays that explore the relationship between Romanticism and Modernity against the backdrop of uneven processes of modernization in Europe, of nationalist ferment in the colonies, and in more recent times. The essays have been contributed by scholars from different parts of the world and from different disciplines.

Preface 1. Introduction Shaswati Mazumdar, Claudia Wenner, Sharmistha Lahiri 2. Colonial Romanticism and the Challenges of Modernity Namwar Singh 3. Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Romantics, Rebels or Reactionaries Tapan Basu 4. Romanticism and the Roots of Brazilian Nationalism Dilip Loundo 5. Alexander Pushkin ? A Revolutionary Romantic or a Prudent Realist? Abhai Maurya 6. The Poetry of Giacomo Leopardi: Between Romanticism and Modernity ? Readings on the Canti Sharmistha Lahiri 7. Romantic Quest and Forsterian Vision in Howards End Lalita Subbu 8. ?Can You Locate Us in the Past?? English Romanticism?s Response to Modernism Krishnan Unni. P. 9. Inverted Sights Margit K?ves 10. Romantic Response to Modernity: New Consciousness of Time through the Ball Scene Dominique de Gasquet 11. Rahel Varnhagen?s Berlin Salons: The Question of Emancipation Kavita Bhatia 12. Nature and Fear: Two Conditions in European Romantic Painting Virginia Nieto-Sandoval Mill?n 13. Kant and the Limits of Rationality: A Reading of the Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals Rekha Basu 14. What is Modernity? Habermas and/or de Man Kathleen Kerr Contributors

Shaswati Mazumdar is Professor of German Studies at the Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi. Claudia Wenner was formerly Visiting Lecturer in German at the Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi, and is currently a writer, free-lance journalist and translator. Sharmistha Lahiri is directing Italian Studies at the Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi.

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