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Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Oxford
Exploring an Anglo-German network of thought and writing in Britain between 1700 and 1790, this volume offers a new approach to eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and culture. It explores a set of radical figures and institutions...
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Exploring an Anglo-German network of thought and writing in Britain between 1700 and 1790, this volume offers a new approach to eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and culture. It explores a set of radical figures and institutions that are exorbitant, with particular focus on William Blake and Johann Georg Hamann. Cover -- Exorbitant Enlightenment: Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Troubling Enlightenment -- BLAKE AND HAMANN: TWO EXORBITANTS -- WHY TAKE THE TROUBLE? -- READING ANGLO-GERMAN CONSTELLATIONS -- 1: Unexpected Connections: Anglo-German Contexts in Pre-1790s Britain -- THE 'FAMILIAR FACT THAT NO ENGLISHMAN READ GERMAN LITERATURE' -- TWO WAVES OF GERMAN ARRIVALS IN LONDON: 1708 AND 1764 -- ANGLO-GERMAN INSTITUTIONALIZATION: CHURCHES, BOOK INDUSTRY, AND BILINGUAL PUBLICATIONS -- GERMAN VISITORS TO LONDON AS CHRONICLERS OF BRITAIN -- 2: Blake and Hamann: Exorbitants -- INTRODUCTION -- EARLY COMPARATIVISM -- PROPHETS OF JOY, PROPHETS OF DOOM -- 3: Crossing Channels: Fuseli, Hamann, and Lavater -- INTRODUCTION -- HENRY FUSELI: GERMAN TRANSLATOR AND ENGLISH WRITER IN 1760S LONDON -- 'EVEN SPIRITUAL THINGS': HAMANN TRANSLATING HUME -- CASPAR LAVATER: CONNECTING BLAKE AND HAMANN -- 4: Blake and Hamann: Poetry as Mother-Tongue and the Fight against Instrumental Reason -- NAMING AS CREATION -- POETRY AS THE MOTHER-TONGUE OF THE HUMAN RACE -- BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT: 'LONDON' AND COUNTERFEIT REASON -- METACRITIQUE: AGAINST PURE LANGUAGE -- CELEBRATING THE OPACITY OF LANGUAGE -- 5: The Polyglot Moraviansin Eighteenth-Century London -- THE MORAVIANS, LOCAL AND GLOBAL -- THE ANGLO-GERMAN CHARACTER OF MORAVIAN LIFE -- 6: A Critique of Habit: Blake and Hamann on Religion, Matrimony, and Pedagogy -- SHAPING THOUGHT AND BELIEF -- 7: Hybrid Hymns: Anglo-German Voices in Blake's Songs -- THE MORAVIAN POLYGLOT HYMN IN BRITISH LITERARY HISTORY -- BLAKE AND HIS MORAVIAN 'CITY, GRACE' -- THE DECLINE OF THE MORAVIANS AND THE OBFUSCATION OF MULTILINGUALISM -- 8: Every Letter Has a Body: Blake and Hamann on the Sexuality of Language.
