http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2009/04/10#romanticists Political, religious and moral views. <a href="science.html">Scientific interests</a>. Attitudes to technology. And the <a href="enlightenment.html">Enlightenment</a>. And <a href="nietzsche.html">Nietzsche</a>. And <a href="artistic-modernism.html">artistic modernism</a>. <ul>See: <li>The Romanticists themselves. They read well. I lean towards the Shelleys, George Sand, Dumas, Pushkin and of course Goethe. <li><a href="barzun.html">Jacques Barzun</a> <ul> <li>"To the Rescue of Romanticism", <cite>The American Scholar</cite> (Spring 1940) [<a href="http://www.theamericanscholar.org/wi08/romanticism-barzun.html">Online</a>. Summary essay connected to his book.] <li><cite>Classic, Romantic and Modern</cite> <li><cite>Berlioz and His Century</cite> (one-volume abridgement of <cite>Berlioz and the Romantic Century</cite> omitting detailed music descriptions and criticism) </ul> <li>Hector Berlioz, <cite>Evenings with the Orchestra</cite> (trans. Jacques Barzun. I strongly suspect this was one of <a href="../Sterling/">Sterling's</a> sources for "The Beautiful and the Sublime.") <li>Thomas Love Peacock, <cite>Nightmare Abbey</cite> [Affectionate contemporary parody] </ul> <ul>To read or see: <li>Delacroix <li>Caspar David Friedrich <li>Gericault <li>Heine <li>Hoffmann <li>Michelet [So he was a historian, not a novelist or poet. So what?] <li>Schiller </ul> <ul>Secondary sources to read: <li>Auden, <cite>The Enchafed Flood</cite> <li>Sarah Burns, <cite>Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America</cite> [<a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9270.html">Blurb, intro</a>] <li>Leon Chai, <cite>Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/9098.html">Blurb</a>] <li>Karl Kroeber <ul> <li><cite>Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind</cite> <li><cite>Romantic Fantasy and Science Fiction</cite> </ul> <li>Michael Lowy and Robert Sayre, <cite>Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity</cite> <li>Praz, <cite>The Romantic Agony</cite> <li>James B. Twitchell, <cite>The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature</cite> <li>George S. Williamson, <cite>The Longing for Myth in Germany: Culture, Religion, and Politics from Romanticism to Nietzsche</cite> </ul>