Books

  1. T. Pfau. Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840..  2005. (Johns Hopkins University Press, October 2005 (http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/8432.html))  [abs] [author's comments]
  2.  Wordsworth's Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Romantic Cultural Production. Stanford UP, 1997. xiii + 460 pp. (http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=2902%20%20)  [author's comments]

Edited Volumes

  1.  Medium and Message in German Modernism. Modernist Cultures 2  (2006): ~ 250 pp.. (This special issue contains six essays by notable people working in 19th c. and 20c. literary studies, philosophy, and musicology.) [asp]
  2. T. Pfau, co-editor. Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion.  an anthology of twenty-one essays, Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
  3. T. Pfau, co-editor. Textual and Cultural Dissolution in English Romanticism. a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly 95.iii (Summer 1996).
  4. T. Pfau, ed.. Idealism and the Endgames of Theory: Three Essays by F. W. J. Schelling.  State U of New York P, 1994.  (Trans. and edited with a critical introduction)
  5. T. Pfau, ed.. Friedrich Hölderlin: Essays and Letters on Theory.  State U of New York P, 1987.  (Trans. and ed., with a critical introduction)

Articles/Essays/Chapters in Books

  1. "“The Philosophy of Shipwreck: Gnosticism, Skepticism, and Coleridge’s Catastrophic Modernity.”." MLN - Comparative Literature Issue 122.4 (Winter, 2007)
  2. "Of Ends and Endings: Teleological and Variational Models of Romantic Narrative." European Romantic Review 18.2 (Spring, 2007): 231-41.
  3. "“The Melancholy Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Thought.”." Romantic Praxis  (2007)
  4. ""Beyond Liberal Utopia: Freedom in the Nineteenth Century"." European Romantic Review 19.1 (2007)
  5. "Nineteenth-Century Lyric German Poetry."  vol 9 of Camden House History of German Literature9Camden House,
  6. ""From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures"." Blackwell Companion to European Romanticism. Ed. Michael Ferber. Blackwell, 2005. 
  7. ""From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism"." in "A Companion to European Romanticism". Ed. Michael Ferber. Blackwell CompanionsBlackwell, 2005.
  8. "Conjuring History: Lyric Cliche, Conservative Fantasy, and Traumatic Awakening in German Romanticism." in Afterlives of Romanticism, a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, ed. Ian Baucom  (Winter, 2003)
  9. "Nachtigallenwahnsinn and Rabbinismus: Heine's Literary Provocation to German-Jewish Cultural Identity." Romantic Poetry: Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages. Ed. A. Esterhammer. John Benjamins, 2002. 427-44.
  10. "The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition after Kant." MLQ 60.3 (1999): 321-52.  Previously published by Romantic Praxis http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/philosophy/pfau1/tp1.html [html]
  11. "Reading beyond Redemption: Historicism, Irony, and the Lessons of Romanticism." Critical Introduction to Lessons of Romanticism, Duke UP Ed. Thomas Pfau and Robert F. Gleckner.  (Feb. 1998): 1-37.
  12. "Bringing about the Past: Prophetic Memory in Kant, Godwin, and Blake." Romantic Proxis  (1997) [html]
  13. "Paranoian Historicized: Legal Fantasy, Social Change, and Satiric Meta-Commentary in the 1794 Treason Trials." Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press. Ed. Stephen C. Behrendt. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1997.
  14. "Beyond the Suburbs of the Mind: The Political and Aesthetic Economy of the Body in Malthus and Wordsworth." South Atlantic Quarterly 95.iii (Summer 1996): 629-69.
  15. ""Searching their Hearts": Romantic Pedagogy, Social Ascendancy, and the Pleasures of Surveillance in Andrew Bell and Mary Wollstonecraft." Romanticism 2.ii (1996): 220-46.
  16. "Immediacy and Dissolution: Reflections on Moral Theory and the Logic of Critical Discourse." Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory. Ed. Tilottama Rajan and David Clark. Albany: State U of New York P, 1995. 
  17. "'Elementary Feelings' and 'Distorted Language': The Pragmatics of Culture in Wordsworth's Preface (1800)." New Literary History 24.i (1993): 125-46.
  18. "The Pragmatics of Genre: Moral Theory and Lyric Authorship in Hegel and Wordsworth." Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Review 10.ii (1992): 397-422.  Reprinted in Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship, ed. Peter Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee [Durham: Duke UP, 1994]
  19. "Tropes of Desire: Figuring the 'Insufficient Void' of Self-Consciousness in Shelley's Epipsychidion." Keats-Shelley Journal XL (1991): 99-126.
  20. "Immediacy and the Text: Friedrich Schleiermacher's Theory of Style and Interpretation." Journal of the History of Ideas 51.i (1990): 51-73.
  21. "Thinking before Totality: Kritik, Ubersetzung, and the Language of Interpretation in the early Walter Benjamin." MLN (Comparative Literature Issue) 103.5 (1988): 1072-97.
  22. "Rhetoric and the Existential: Romantic Studies and the Question of the Subject." Studies in Romanticism 26 (1987): 487-512.

Articles Submitted

  1. "“Nineteenth-Century Lyric German Poetry.”." Camden House History of German Literature, volume 9 (2003).
  2. ""From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism"." (forthcoming). (edited Michael Ferber)

Book Reviews

  1.  Review of 1. George S. Williamson, The Longing for Myth in Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche (Chicago: U of Chicago Press).  European Romantic Review 18.3 (Spring, 2007): 439-44.
  2.  The Wordsworthian Enlightenment, ed. Helen R. Elam & Frances Ferguson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005).  Romantic Circles (2007). [available here]
  3. Helen Elam and Frances Ferguson. 1. The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Ecology of Reading.  Romantic Praxis (2007). (forthcoming)
  4. Leon Chai. 2. Leon Chai, Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era.  Comparative Literature (2007).
  5.  Review of George S. Williamson's, The Longing for Myth in Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche.  2004  (Forthcoming in European Romantic Review)
  6.  Emerson R. Marks, Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory since the Renaissance.  MLQ (2003) . 60.2 (2003): 265-67.
  7.  Review of Ian Balfour's The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy.  Comparative Literature (2003).
  8.  Review of Angela Esterhammer's The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism.  Criticism (forthcoming).
  9.  Review of Terence A. Hoagwood's Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts.  Studies in Romanticism 38.4 (1999): 692-98.
  10.  Review of Emerson R. Marks's Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory since the Renaissance.  MLQ 60.2 (1998): 265-67. [html]
  11.  Review of Martha Woodmansee's The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics.  Studies in Romanticism 34 (1995): 490-95.
  12.  Review of Edwin Stein's Woodworth's Art of Illusion.  Studies in Romanticism 29 (1990): 496-99.
  13.  Review of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean Luc Nancy's The Literary Absolute.  Studies in Romanticism 29.2 (1990): 309-13.
  14.  Review of Winfried Menninghaus's Unendliche Verdopplung: Die Grundlegung der fruhromantischen Kunsttheorie im Begriff absoluter Selbstreflexion.  MLN (German Issue) 104.3 (1989): 729-33.
  15.  Review of Andrej Warminski's Readings in Interpretation: Holderlin, Hegel, and Heidegger.  MLN (Comparative Literature Issue) 102.5 (1987): 1212-15.

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