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. "Locke's Desire / Shaftesbury's Sentiment: Empiricism Conquers the Will." Romanticism and the Emotions. Ed. R. Sha and J. Faflak. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.  [author's comments]
  2. "The Appearance of Stimmung: Play as Virtual Rationality,”." Stimmung. Zur Wiederkehr einer ästhetischen Kategorie. Ed. Anna-Katharina Gisbertz. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, March, 2011.
  3. T. Pfau. ""William Paley"." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 4 vols.. Ed. Frederick Burwick, Nancy Goslee, et al.. Blackwell, 2011. 
  4. T. Pfau. ""Bildungsroman"." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature Ed. Frederick Burwick, Nancy Goslee, et al.. Blackwell, (2011)
  5. "The Letter of Judgment: Practical Reason in Aristotle, the Stoics, and Rousseau." The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation 51.3 (2010): 289-316.
  6. "Bildungsspiele: Vicissitudes of Socialization in Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship." European Romantic Review 21.5 (2010): 567-87.
  7. "Bildung: Etiology, Function, Structure (with some reflections on Beethoven)." Die Romantik: ein Gründungsmythos der EuropEuropäischen Moderne. Ed. Ulrich Gaier, et al.. Bonner Universitätsverlag, 2010. 123-41.
  8. T. Pfau. "Differentiation, Metamorphosis, and the Phenomenology of Life in Ovid and Goethe." Studies in Romanticism  (2010)
  9. "Mourning Modernity: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form." The Oxford Handbook on the Elegy.  2010.
  10. T. Pfau. "All is Leaf”: Difference, Metamorphosis, and Goethe’s Phenomenology of Knowledge." Studies In Romanticism 49.1 (2010): 3-41.
  11. T. Pfau. "William Paley." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romanticism. Ed. Diane Hoeveler and Fred Burwick. Blackwell, forthcoming.
  12. T. Pfau. "The Bildungsroman." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romanticism.  2010.
  13. "“The Philosophy of Shipwreck: Gnosticism, Skepticism, and Coleridge’s Catastrophic Modernity.”." MLN - Comparative Literature Issue 122.4 (Winter, 2007)
  14. "Of Ends and Endings: Teleological and Variational Models of Romantic Narrative." European Romantic Review 18.2 (Spring, 2007): 231-41.
  15. "“The Melancholy Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Thought.”." Romantic Praxis  (2007)
  16. ""Beyond Liberal Utopia: Freedom in the Nineteenth Century"." European Romantic Review 19.1 (2007)
  17. "Nineteenth-Century Lyric German Poetry."  vol 9 of Camden House History of German Literature9Camden House,
  18. ""From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures"." Blackwell Companion to European Romanticism. Ed. Michael Ferber. Blackwell, 2005. 
  19. ""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.
  20. "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)
  21. "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.
  22. "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]
  23. "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.
  24. "Bringing about the Past: Prophetic Memory in Kant, Godwin, and Blake." Romantic Proxis  (1997) [html]
  25. "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.
  26. "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.
  27. ""Searching their Hearts": Romantic Pedagogy, Social Ascendancy, and the Pleasures of Surveillance in Andrew Bell and Mary Wollstonecraft." Romanticism 2.ii (1996): 220-46.
  28. "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. 
  29. "'Elementary Feelings' and 'Distorted Language': The Pragmatics of Culture in Wordsworth's Preface (1800)." New Literary History 24.i (1993): 125-46.
  30. "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]
  31. "Tropes of Desire: Figuring the 'Insufficient Void' of Self-Consciousness in Shelley's Epipsychidion." Keats-Shelley Journal XL (1991): 99-126.
  32. "Immediacy and the Text: Friedrich Schleiermacher's Theory of Style and Interpretation." Journal of the History of Ideas 51.i (1990): 51-73.
  33. "Thinking before Totality: Kritik, Ubersetzung, and the Language of Interpretation in the early Walter Benjamin." MLN (Comparative Literature Issue) 103.5 (1988): 1072-97.
  34. "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. T. Pfau. Paul Fry, Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are.  Modern Philology 108.3 (2011): 191-94.
  2. T. Pfau. David Collings, Monstrous Society: Reciprocity, Discipline, and the Political Uncanny at the end of Early Modern England.  European Romantic Review 2012.23 (2011): 68-73.
  3. Colin Jager. The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era.  review forthcoming in Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, no. 25 (2009).
  4. T. Pfau. Paul Fry, Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are.  Modern Philology 106.2 (2009 (forthcoming)).
  5. T. Pfau. Leon Chai, "Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era".  Comparative Literature 60.3 (2008): 290-94.
  6.  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.
  7.  The Wordsworthian Enlightenment, ed. Helen R. Elam & Frances Ferguson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005).  Romantic Circles (2007). [available here]
  8.  Emerson R. Marks, Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory since the Renaissance.  MLQ (2003) . 60.2 (2003): 265-67.
  9.  Review of Ian Balfour's The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy.  Comparative Literature (2003).
  10.  Review of Angela Esterhammer's The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism.  Criticism (forthcoming).
  11.  Review of Terence A. Hoagwood's Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts.  Studies in Romanticism 38.4 (1999): 692-98.
  12.  Review of Martha Woodmansee's The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics.  Studies in Romanticism 34 (1995): 490-95.
  13.  Review of Edwin Stein's Woodworth's Art of Illusion.  Studies in Romanticism 29 (1990): 496-99.
  14.  Review of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean Luc Nancy's The Literary Absolute.  Studies in Romanticism 29.2 (1990): 309-13.
  15.  Review of Winfried Menninghaus's Unendliche Verdopplung: Die Grundlegung der fruhromantischen Kunsttheorie im Begriff absoluter Selbstreflexion.  MLN (German Issue) 104.3 (1989): 729-33.
  16.  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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