The Real and the Absolute. Romanticism and experience from Goethe to Byron
New book by Florence Schnebelen published by Classiques Garnier
Experience, a major scientific and philosophical notion of the 18th century, provides the emerging Romanticism (1795-1818) with a privileged theme that guides its aesthetic program.
From quest to resignation, from celebration of action to introspective withdrawal, the configurations of experience in works from Goethe to Byron show how the tension between the real and the absolute runs through Romanticism and its most famous achievements. Coupled with the perspective of
the history of ideas, poetic analysis reveals the richness of Romantic reflections and attitudes in relation to experience, while questioning the effects of reception in the construction of Romantic identity.
