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Publications of Thomas Pfau    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

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 vol. 2, 2006 (~ 250 pp. 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 vol. 95 no. 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 (xiv + 293 pp.). (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 (xiv + 186 pp.). (Trans. and ed., with a critical introduction)

Articles Submitted

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

Articles in a Collection

  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"."  Ed. Frederick Burwick, Nancy Goslee, et al.. Blackwell, 2011.
  5.  "The Letter of Judgment: Practical Reason in Aristotle, the Stoics, and Rousseau." . 2010, 289-316.
  6.  "Bildungsspiele: Vicissitudes of Socialization in Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship." . 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." . 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." . 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.”." . Winter, 2007.
  14.  "Of Ends and Endings: Teleological and Variational Models of Romantic Narrative." . Spring, 2007, 231-41.
  15.  "“The Melancholy Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Thought.”." . 2007.
  16.  ""Beyond Liberal Utopia: Freedom in the Nineteenth Century"." . 2007.
  17.  "Nineteenth-Century Lyric German Poetry." . vol 9 of Camden House History of German LiteratureCamden House, Spring, 2005.
  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." . 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." . 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."  Ed. Thomas Pfau and Robert F. Gleckner. Feb. 1998, 1-37.
  24.  "Bringing about the Past: Prophetic Memory in Kant, Godwin, and Blake." . 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." . Summer 1996, 629-69.
  27.  ""Searching their Hearts": Romantic Pedagogy, Social Ascendancy, and the Pleasures of Surveillance in Andrew Bell and Mary Wollstonecraft." . 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)." . 1993, 125-46.
  30.  "The Pragmatics of Genre: Moral Theory and Lyric Authorship in Hegel and Wordsworth." . 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." . 1991, 99-126.
  32.  "Immediacy and the Text: Friedrich Schleiermacher's Theory of Style and Interpretation." . 1990, 51-73.
  33.  "Thinking before Totality: Kritik, Ubersetzung, and the Language of Interpretation in the early Walter Benjamin." . 1988, 1072-97.
  34.  "Rhetoric and the Existential: Romantic Studies and the Question of the Subject." . 1987, 487-512.

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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