Romantic Legacies

de Shun-Liang Chao, John Michael Corrigan

"Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts explores the legacies of Romanticism in a global and intercultural context, across the humanities. Since Romanticism, was a transnational and transdisciplinary movement, the volume brings into play various national traditions and disciplinary perspectives in order to demonstrate the many ways their legacies, in their full complexity and richness, have been carried forward through more modern movements. The volume's transnational and transdisciplinary emphases complement each other and provide readers a lens through which to understand Romanticism not simply as a literary or artistic heritage, but as a dynamic site of engagement that crosses cultures and entails no less than the shaping of our global civilization"--