Romantic <i>Weltliteratur</i> of the Western World

Romantic Weltliteratur
of the Western World

Edited by Agnieszka Gutthy

PETER LANG

New York • Bern • Berlin

Brussels • Vienna • Oxford • Warsaw

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Gutthy, Agnieszka, editor.
Title: Romantic Weltliteratur of the Western World / Agnieszka Gutthy.
Description: New York: Peter Lang, 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019003107 | ISBN 978-1-4331-6143-8 (hardback: alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4331-6144-5 (ebook pdf) ISBN 978-1-4331-6145-2 (epub) | ISBN 978-1-4331-6146-9 (mobi)
Subjects: LCSH: Romanticism. | Literature, Modern—History and criticism.
Classification: LCC PN603 .R5637 | DDC 809/.9145—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019003107
DOI 10.3726/b14649

Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the “Deutsche
Nationalbibliografie”; detailed bibliographic data are available
on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de/.

Cover image: Artist: Friedrich, Caspar David, 1774–1840
Title: Woman before the Setting Sun. About 1818
Location: Essen, Museum Folkwang
Photo: © Museum Folkwang Essen—ARTOTHEK

© 2020 Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York

29 Broadway, 18th floor, New York, NY 10006

www.peterlang.com

All rights reserved.

Reprint or reproduction, even partially, in all forms such as microfilm,
xerography, microfiche, microcard, and offset strictly prohibited.

About the editor

Agnieszka Gutthy is a professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Southeastern Louisiana University. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish literature from Temple University in Philadelphia. Her research interests include European minority languages and cultures: Basque in Spain and Kashubs in Poland, as well as comparative literature. She has edited books on literature in exile and has published numerous essays on Spanish, Basque, Polish, and Kashubian literatures.

About the book

Romantic Weltliteratur of the Western World is a collection of essays that examine Romantic literature and art from Europe and America. Since Goethe coined the concept of Weltliteratur, scholarly interest in comparative, global, and transnational literary and cultural studies has only continued to grow. Intended to complement existing scholarship, the essays in this volume offer a variety of critical approaches to Romantic literature and explore the dialogic component of different literary works as well as their transnational intertextualities.

This eBook can be cited

This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgment

Introduction

Agnieszka Gutthy

Section One: Poetic Inspirations

1. The Romantic “I”: Italy and India in Letitia Landon’s Transnational Texts

Debnita Chakravarti

2. Robert Southey’s “Orientaliana” in Thalaba, the Destroyer

Md. Monirul Islam

Section Two: Poetry, Spirituality, and Art

3. Seeker Spirituality and the American Blake

Jade Hagan

Section Three: Transnational Romantics

4. Adam Mickiewicz and The Books of the Polish Nation and of the Polish Pilgrimage: Transnational Expression of Polish Messianism in Romanticism

Fernando Presa González

5. Margaret Fuller and Adam Mickiewicz

Agnieszka Gutthy←v | vi→

Section Four: Romantic Translations

6. Illusions of Certainty: Reconsidering the 1821 Anonymous Translation of Goethe’s Faustus

Carrie Busby

7. El principe constante / Książę niezłomny: From Spanish Baroque to Polish Romanticism

Agnieszka Gutthy

Section Five: Romantic Novel

8. The Imprint of Walter Scott on the Historical Perspective of Aleksander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mabel Greta Velis Blinova

9. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Olaf Stapledon’s Sirius

Iren Boyarkina

Section Six: Romanticism and Beyond

10. A Source Study of “The Nightingale and the Rose” (1888) by Oscar Wilde, With Special Reference to “Les sept cordes de la lyre” (The Seven Strings of the Lyre) (1838) by George Sand

Akemi Yoshida

11. Loss of Weltliteratur: Contextualizing Goethe’s Weltliteratur in the 21st Century

Kimaya Thakur

Contributors Biographies

Index of Poets and Writers←vi | vii→

Illustrations

Figure 2.1: Plate 1. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (copy D. Library of Congress).

Figure 2.2: Plate 2. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (copy D. Library of Congress).

Figure 2.3: Plate 3. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (copy D. Library of Congress).

Figure 2.4: Plate 4. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (copy D. Library of Congress).←vii | viii→ ←viii | ix→

Acknowledgment

I wish to thank my assistant editor, Tim French for his invaluable help in editing this book.←ix | x→ ←x | xi→

Introduction