Book contents
- Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Soliloquies in Praise of Chivalry
- Interlude
- Chapter 2 “Say, What Is Honour?”
- Chapter 3 Full Faith and Credit
- Interlude
- Chapter 4 Black in Character as in Complexion
- Postlude
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Introduction
Honor as the Hidden Value of Modernity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 February 2023
- Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Soliloquies in Praise of Chivalry
- Interlude
- Chapter 2 “Say, What Is Honour?”
- Chapter 3 Full Faith and Credit
- Interlude
- Chapter 4 Black in Character as in Complexion
- Postlude
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Summary
Not just embraced by reactionaries, aristocrats, or committed duelists, the idea of honor had widespread cultural and sociopolitical purchase in the Romantic era. As a master value – or a value so prolific that it is becomes the hidden assumption of a range of different theories and practices – honor, this introduction argues, addresses three major developments in modernity: the growing split between private and public selves, the development of new kinds of civic virtue, and the ascendent place of affect in cultural production. Placing Keats, Coleridge, Equiano, Wollstonecraft, Burke, Kant, and Hegel in conversation with contemporary critics such as Wai Chee Dimock, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Achille Mbembe – all of whose recent work is concerned with honor and mutual recognition – this introduction further reveals Romantic cultures diagnosis of the limits of liberal republican notions of liberty when faced with the social necessity of material forms of dignity.
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