{"product_id":"exorbitant-enlightenment-blake-hamann-and-anglo-german-constellations-hardcover","title":"Exorbitant Enlightenment: Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlexander Regier\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExorbitant Enlightenment\u003c\/em\u003e compels us to see eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and culture in new ways. This book reveals a constellation of groundbreaking pre-1790s Anglo-German relations, many of which are so radical âso exorbitantâ that they ask us to fundamentally rethink the ways we grasp literary and intellectual history, especially when it comes to Enlightenment and Romanticism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRegier presents two of the great, untold stories of the eighteenth century. The first story uncovers a forgotten Anglo-German network of thought and writing in Britain between 1700 and 1790. From this Anglo-German context emerges the second story: about a group of idiosyncratic figures and institutions, including the Moravians in 1750s London, Henry Fuseli, and Johann Caspar Lavater, as well as the two most exorbitant figures, William Blake and Johann Georg Hamann. The bookâs eight chapters show how these authors and institutions shake up common understandings of British literary and European intellectual history and offer a very different, much more counter-intuitive view of the period. Through their distinctive conceptions of language, Blake and Hamann articulate âin different yet deeply related waysâ a radical critique of instrumental thought and institutional religion. They also argue for the irreducible relation between language and the sexual body. In each case, they push against\u003cbr\u003esome of the most central cultural and philosophical assumptions, then and now. The book argues that, when taken seriously, these exorbitant figures allow us to uncover and revise some of our own critical orthodoxies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Regier is Associate Professor of English at Rice University and editor of the scholarly journal \u003cem\u003eSEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eFracture and Fragmentation in British Romanticism\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2010), the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eWordsworth's Poetic Theory: Knowledge, Language, Experience\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave, 2010), and has edited special journal issues on \"Mobilities\" and \"Genealogies\". Dr Regier has published widely on William Blake, Johann Georg Hamann, William Wordsworth, Walter Benjamin, ruins, contemporary poetry, and the aesthetics of sport. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 06, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753977282848,"sku":"9780198827122","price":188.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1d56a93e8e2d7d9084345c978589bfac.webp?v=1780030734","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/exorbitant-enlightenment-blake-hamann-and-anglo-german-constellations-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}