The Orient in Romanticism and Transcendentalism

• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Eui-Yeong Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제106호, 159~188쪽, 전체 30쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.03.31

영문 초록

In order to modify Schwab's several conceptual mistakes and to make amends for his occasional omissions appearing on his The Oriental Renaissance, this study attempts to elucidate the nature of the Orient in Romanticism and Transcendentalism from a comparative perspective. While arguing about the Orientalism both in the Romantics and in the Transcendentalists. the scholar seems to have executed his study of the Oriental influences on the West only in favor of the Hindu, even if the Chinese influences played a more important role in leading the Romantic movement Especially, he omitted that the conception of Chinese garden as an new aesthetic standard happened during the eighteenth century, paved the way for the European Romantic movements. Secondly, he gave the priority of the emergence of "an Oriental Renaissance" to a surge of interest in the study of Sanskrit. But India could claim no monopoly and should share its popularity with China. Thirdly. Schwab treats the characteristics of the Orient in New England Transcendentalism in the same vein as that of European Romanticism But its response to the Orient was quite different from that of Romanticism. For the American Transcendentalists, the Orient was the home of the oldest philosophic truths: for the European Romantics, it was a source of poetic glamour.

목차

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. The First Impact of Chinese Culture on the Authority of the Old Standards of European Faith

3. The Chinese Origin of a Romanticism

4. The Prevalence of the Indian and Chinese Scriptures over European Romantics

5. The American Response to the Orient

6. Conclusion

Works Cited

키워드

Raymond Schwab Romanticism Orientalism Confucianism Transcendentalism Oriental Renaissance