Post-Romantic Identities: The impact of Romanticism on subsequent
constructions of self
The conference theme draws upon an area of increasing interest across the
humanities. The concept of “Romanticism” has undergone intensive
interrogation in recent years as scholars have attempted to trace its
development as a term applied retrospectively in discourses seeking to
distinguish and define subsequent artistic and philosophical movements. Of
continued relevance are the ways in which ideas associated with Romanticism
contribute to constructions of the author and authority,
descriptions of the individual’s relationship with society, and to the
organic metaphors of ‘growth’ and ‘natural’ affiliations deployed by newly
emergent and/or expansive nation-states. Similarly, recent scholarship
investigating new literatures from around the world demonstrates a rising
recognition of the ways in which texts and ideas from the Romantic Period
are appropriated and reworked by a variety of contemporary writers and
theorists in their attempts to articulate diverse experiences of self, to
construct new models of identity, and to forge new voices with which to
express different forms of self-knowledge.
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