{"product_id":"exorbitant-enlightenment-blake-hamann-and-anglo-german-constellations-9780198827122","title":"Exorbitant Enlightenment: Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003ethe ways we grasp literary and intellectual history, especially when it comes to Enlightenment and Romanticism. \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\u003cbr\u003einstitutions, 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\u003cbr\u003eEuropean 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\u003cbr\u003ealso argue for the irreducible relation between language and the sexual body. In each case, they push against some 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\u003cbr\u003eown critical orthodoxies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexander Regier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198827122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTheory: 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\u003cbr\u003ehas been the recipient of numerous awards, including an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40322454749299,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":76.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_10f5766d-9226-441e-bacf-11189b2208d3.jpg?v=1659446036","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/exorbitant-enlightenment-blake-hamann-and-anglo-german-constellations-9780198827122","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}