The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism

By Angela Esterhammer

This book develops a new context and methodology for reading Romantic literature by exploring philosophies of language from the period 1785-1835. It explores the moral, political, and legal philosophy of Reid, Bentham, Kant and the German Idealists, Humboldt, and Coleridge, and literary texts by Coleridge, Godwin, H lderlin, and Kleist.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804739145
• ISBN13: 9780804739146
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"