Abstract Acting on recently surging critical interest in late Romanticism, a subperiod taken to range roughly from the later 1810s through 1840s, present article reviews past and current work this burgeoning field, particularly highlighting developing avenues for future research. Two competing accounts of Romanticism are contrasted: long‐dominant take which regards as fundamentally secondary, d...

When two major studies on the same thematic appear roughly simultaneously, integrating not only their authors’ respective careers but the revisions of a whole generation of scholarship, the moment cries out for stock-taking, both substantively and methodologically. At a minimum, we need to recognize the key theses of our two protagonists and the frameworks they erect to uphold them. But we need...

deconstruction demonstrate his fundamental law or affect Maxwell's account of electromagnetic induction? These are small potatoes, however, when you consider that "electrical experiments could mold politics as much as politics did electricity." Do not think that the meaning of this equality is that neither affected the other. No sirree. "Replacing the Newtonian philosophy with the electrical th...