LEADER 05454nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910808171803321 005 20230422043216.0 010 $a0-8047-8014-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804780148 035 $a(CKB)1000000000006978 035 $a(OCoLC)56119642 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10040241 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000283817 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11242313 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000283817 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10251160 035 $a(PQKB)10607383 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3037403 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3037403 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10040241 035 $a(OCoLC)923699618 035 $a(DE-B1597)581398 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804780148 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000006978 100 $a20000621d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe romantic performative$b[electronic resource] $elanguage and action in British and German romanticism /$fAngela Esterhammer 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (377 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8047-3914-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [335]-349) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tAcknowledgments --$tContents --$tPreface --$tA Note on Translations and Abbreviations --$tIntroduction: Locating the Romantic Performative --$t1. Of Promises, Contracts, and Constitutions: Speech-Act xi xvii I Philosophies and Practices in Britain, 1775-1800 --$t2. Kant, German Idealism, and Philosophies of Language in Action --$t3. The Performative Humboldt --$t4. The Performative Coleridge --$t5. Subjective and Intersubjective Speech Acts in Holderlin's Work --$t6. Kleist and the Fragile Performative Order of the World --$t7. Godwin's Philosophy and Fiction: The Resistance to Performatives --$tConclusion --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe Romantic Performative develops a new context and methodology for reading Romantic literature by exploring philosophies of language from the period 1785-1835. It reveals that the concept of the performative, debated by twentieth-century theorists from J. L. Austin to Judith Butler, has a much greater relevance for Romantic literature than has been realized, since Romantic philosophy of language was dominated by the idea that something happens when words are spoken. By presenting Romantic philosophy as a theory of the performative, and Romantic literature in terms of that theory, this book uncovers the historical roots of twentieth-century ideas about speech acts and performativity. Romantic linguistic philosophy already focused on the relationship between speaker and hearer, describing speech as an act that establishes both subjectivity and intersubjective relations and theorizing reality as a verbal construct. But Romantic theorists considered utterance, the context of utterance, and the positions and identities of speaker and hearer to be much more fluid and less stable than modern analytic philosophers tend to make them. Romantic theories of language therefore yield a definition of the "Romantic performative" as an utterance that creates an object in the world, instantiates the relationship between speaker and hearer, and even founds the subjectivity of the speaker in the moment when the utterance occurs. The author traces the Romantic performative through its diverse development in the moral, political, and legal philosophy of Reid, Bentham, Kant and the German Idealists, Humboldt, and Coleridge, then explores its significance in literary texts by Coleridge, Godwin, Hölderlin, and Kleist. These readings demonstrate that Romantic writers mounted a deeper investigation than previously realized into the way the act of speaking generates subjective identity, intersubjective relations, and even objective reality. The project of the book is to read the language of Romanticism as performative and to recognize among its achievements the historical founding of the discourse of performativity itself. 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGerman literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGerman literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aComparative literature$xEnglish and German 606 $aComparative literature$xGerman and English 606 $aPerformative (Philosophy) 606 $aRomanticism$zGermany 606 $aRomanticism$zGreat Britain 606 $aSpeech acts (Linguistics) 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aComparative literature$xEnglish and German. 615 0$aComparative literature$xGerman and English. 615 0$aPerformative (Philosophy) 615 0$aRomanticism 615 0$aRomanticism 615 0$aSpeech acts (Linguistics) 676 $a820.9/145 700 $aEsterhammer$b Angela$01607527 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808171803321 996 $aThe romantic performative$93987523 997 $aUNINA