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why the romantics matter yale university press new haven and ylondon peter gay why the romantics Xmatter Copyright © 2015 “Why X Matters” and the yX logo are registered trademarks of by Peter Gay. All Yale University. rights reserved. This Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial book may not be Fund. reproduced, in whole or in part, including Yale University Press books may be purchased in quantity illustrations, in any for educational, business, or promotional use. For information, form (beyond that please e-mail [email protected] (U.S. copying permitted by office) or [email protected] (U.K. office). Sections 107 and 108 Set in Adobe Garamond type by Integrated Publishing of the U.S. Copy- Solutions, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Printed in the United right Law and except States of America. by reviewers for the public press), without Gay, Peter, 1923–, author. written permission Why the romantics matter / Peter Gay. from the publishers. pages cm — (Why x matters) Summary: “With his usual wit and élan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here, in this concise and inviting volume, he reformulates the definition of romanticism and provides a fresh account of the immense achievements of Page 145 constitutes a continuation of the copyright page. also by peter gay Modernism: The Lure of Heresy, from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks Schnitzler’s Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815–1914 Mozart My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, 5 volumes Reading Freud: Explorations and Entertainments The Freud Reader, edited Freud: A Life for Our Time A Godless Jew: Freud, Atheism, and the Making of Psychoanalysis Freud for Historians Freud, Jews, and Other Germans: Master and Victims in Modernist Culture Art and Act: On Causes in History—Manet, Gropius, Mondrian Historians at Work, edited, with Gerald J. Cavanaugh, 4 volumes Style in History The Enlightenment: A Comprehensive Anthology, edited Modern Europe The Berlin-Jewish Spirit: A Dogma in Search of Some Doubts The Columbia History of the World, edited, with John A. Garraty The Bridge of Criticism: Dialogues Among Lucian, Erasmus, and Voltaire on the Enlightenment— on History and Hope, Imagination and Reason, Constraint and Freedom—and on Its Meaning for our Time The Enlightenment, an Interpretation, 2 volumes Deism Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider Age of Enlightenment A Loss of Mastery: Puritan Historians in Colonial America John Locke on Education, edited The Party of Humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary, translated Voltaire’s Politics: The Poet as Realist The Dilemma of Democratic Socialism: Eduard Bernstein’s Challenge to Marx In loving memory to my friends Bella Berson • Bede Hofstadter • Richard Kuhns • Gladys Topkis • Henry Roberts • Henry Turner • Bob Webb and to my cherished niece, Julia Boltin This page intentionally left blank .

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