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Publications of Thomas Pfau    :chronological  alphabetical  by type  bibtex listing:

  1. Pfau, T, Response to My Interlocutors, Modern Theology, vol. 40 no. 2 (April, 2024), pp. 478-495 [doi]
  2. Pfau, T, Incomprehensible Certainty Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image (June, 2022), pp. 784 pages, ISBN 9780268202484  [abs]
  3. Aers, D; Pfau, T, Exploring Christian Literature in the Contemporary and Secular University, Christianity and Literature, vol. 70 no. 3 (September, 2021), pp. 263-275  [abs]
  4. Pfau, T, Kantian Aesthetics as "soft" Iconoclasm, Logos (United States), vol. 24 no. 3 (June, 2021), pp. 69-88 [doi]
  5. Pfau, T, Absolute Gegebenheit: Image as aesthetic Urphanomen in Husserl and Rilke, in Phenomenology to the Letter: Husserl and Literature (November, 2020), pp. 227-260, ISBN 9783110648386 [doi]  [abs]
  6. Pfau, T, “Superabundant being”: Disambiguating Rilke and Heidegger, Modern Theology, vol. 35 no. 1 (January, 2019), pp. 23-42, WILEY [doi]  [abs]
  7. Pfau, T, “Seeing and being seen coincide” freedom as contemplation in Nicholas of Cusa and G. M. Hopkins, Logos (United States), vol. 22 no. 4 (January, 2019), pp. 20-41, Project Muse [doi]
  8. Pfau, T, Expanding Romanticism's Spatiotemporal, Disciplinary, and Conceptual Boundaries, Keats-Shelley Journal, vol. 68 (January, 2019), pp. 160-162
  9. Judgment and Action Fragments toward a History, edited by Pfau, T; Soni, V (December, 2017), pp. 360 pages, Northwestern University Press, ISBN 9780810136335
  10. Pfau, T, On attention, Salmagundi, vol. 2017-Spring no. 194 (March, 2017), pp. 145-163
  11. Pfau, T, "Botched execution" or historical inevitability: Conceptual dilemmas in Brad S. Gregory's the unintended reformation, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 46 no. 3 (September, 2016), pp. 603-628 [doi]
  12. Pfau, T, A Modern Coleridge: Cultivation, Addiction, Habits, STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM, vol. 55 no. 1 (2016), pp. 134-138
  13. Pfau, T, Cosmopolitan Sociality and the Bildungsroman, Novel, vol. 48 no. 1 (May, 2015), pp. 136-139, Duke University Press, ISSN 0029-5132 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  14. Pfau, T, Rational Theology and the Catholic Critique of Modernity, 1780-1830, in The Oxford Handbook on European Romanticism, edited by Paul, HKC; London, (October, 2014) (forthcoming.)
  15. Pfau, T, Wagner hören im Zeitalter kultureller Überdetermination: Adorno’s Versuch über Wagner, in Jenseits von Bayreuth: Richard Wagner Heute, edited by Boernchen, S; Mein, G (March, 2014), Fink Verlag, Munich
  16. Pfau, T, ’A certain mediocrity' Moral Sentiments and Early Behaviorism in A. Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, in Romanticism and the Emotions, edited by Faflak, J; Sha, R (February, 2014), Cambridge UP
  17. Pfau, T, History without Hermeneutics: Brad Gregory’s Unintended Modernity, The Immanent Frame (November, 2013) [available here]
  18. T. Pfau, Minding the Modern: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions & Responsible Knowledge (October, 2013), pp. 692 pages, University of Notre Dame Press
  19. Pfau, T, review of Tilottama Rajan, Romantic Narrative (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010), The Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation (October, 2013) [Review_of_Tilottama_Rajan_Romantic_Narrative]  [abs]
  20. Pfau, T, A Note on the pre-History of European Nihilism: Eroticism and Damaged Life in Don Giovanni, vol. 2 (October, 2013) [_A_Note_on_the_pre-History_of_European_Nihilism_Eroticism_and_Damaged_Life_in_Don_Giovanni_]
  21. Pfau, T, Meta language and visual experience in The Stechlin, German Quarterly, vol. 86 no. 4 (October, 2013), pp. 421-443, WILEY, ISSN 0016-8831 [doi]
  22. Pfau, T, Minding the modern: Human agency, intellectual traditions, and responsible knowledge (January, 2013), pp. 1-675, ISBN 9780268038403  [abs]
  23. Pfau, T, Epochenwandel mit metaphysischen Anklängen: Metasprache und Bilderfahrung in Der Stechlin, German Quarterly, vol. 86 no. 4 (2013), pp. 420-442 [_]
  24. Pfau, T, Mourning Modernity:: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form (September, 2012) [doi]  [abs]
  25. Pfau, T, review of David Collings, Monstrous Society: Reciprocity, Discipline, and the Political Uncanny at the end of Early Modern England (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP), European Romantic Review, vol. 23 no. 1 (March, 2012), pp. 68-73
  26. Pfau, T, A certain mediocrity: Adam Smith’s moral behaviorism, in Romanticism and the Emotions (January, 2012), pp. 48-75, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107052390 [doi]  [abs]
  27. Pfau, T; Mitchell, R, Romanticism and Modernity (November, 2011), pp. 246-246, Routledge
  28. Pfau, T, The Appearance of Stimmung: Play as Virtual Rationality, in Stimmung: zur Wiederkehr einer ästhetischen Kategorie?, edited by Gisbertz, A (March, 2011), Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich, Germany [pdf]
  29. Pfau, T, Paul H. Fry, Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We AreWordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are. Paul H. Fry . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi+240., Modern Philology, vol. 108 no. 3 (February, 2011), pp. E191-E194, University of Chicago Press, ISSN 0026-8232 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  30. Pfau, T, Rethinking the image: With some reflections on G. M. Hopkins, Yearbook of Comparative Literature, vol. 57 (January, 2011), pp. 117-147
  31. Pfau, T, The Bildungsroman, in The Blackwell Encylopedia of Romantic Literature, edited by Burwick, F; Goslee, N; Hoeveler, D (2011), pp. 124-132, Blackwell [_]
  32. Pfau, T, Review of Paul Fry, Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are, vol. 108 no. 3 (2011), pp. 191-94 [Review_of_Paul_Fry_Wordsworth_and_the_Poetry_of_What_We_Are]
  33. Pfau, T; Mitchell, R, Romanticism and Modernity, edited by Pfau, T; Mitchell, R, vol. 21 (2011), pp. 267-273, Routledge [doi]
  34. Pfau, T, William Paley, in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 4 vols., edited by Burwick, F; Goslee, N (2011), Blackwell, ISBN 1405188103 [_]
  35. Pfau, T, Bildungsspiele: Vicissitudes of socialization in Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship, European Romantic Review, vol. 21 no. 5 (October, 2010), pp. 567-587, Informa UK Limited, ISSN 1050-9585 [doi]  [abs]
  36. Pfau, T; Mitchell, R, European Romantic Review: Introduction, European Romantic Review, vol. 21 no. 5 (October, 2010), pp. 545-551, Informa UK Limited, ISSN 1050-9585 [doi]
  37. Pfau, T, Between sentimentality and phantasmagoria: German lyric poetry, 1830–1890, in German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899, vol. 9 (January, 2010), pp. 207-250, ISBN 9781571132505  [abs]
  38. Pfau, T, The letter of judgment: Practical reason in Aristotle, the Stoics, and Rousseau, Eighteenth Century, vol. 51 no. 3 (January, 2010), pp. 289-316, ISSN 0193-5380 [Gateway.cgi]  [abs]
  39. Pfau, T, "All is leaf": Difference, metamorphosis, and Goethe's phenomenology of knowledge, Studies in Romanticism, vol. 49 no. 1 (January, 2010), pp. 3-41, ISSN 0039-3762 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  40. Mitchell, R; Pfau, T, “Romanticism and Form” special issue, European Romantic Review, vol. 21 no. 5 (2010)
  41. Mitchell, R; Pfau, T, NASSR 2009 Conference Volume, European Romantic Review, vol. 21 no. 3 (2010)
  42. Pfau, T, Bildung: Etiology, Function, Structure (with some reflections on Beethoven), in Die Romantik: ein Gründungsmythos der EuropEuropäischen Moderne, edited by Gaier, U; al, E (2010), pp. 123-41, Bonner Universitätsverlag, Bonn, Germany [pdf]
  43. Pfau, T, Bildung: Etiology, Function, Structure (with some reflections on Beethoven), in Die Romantik: ein Gründungsmythos der EuropEuropäischen Moderne, edited by Gaier, U (2010), pp. 123-41, Bonner Universitätsverlag [pdf]
  44. Pfau, T, Mourning Modernity: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form, in The Oxford Handbook on the Elegy (2009) [pdf]
  45. Pfau, T, Review of Colin Jager The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era, Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, no. 25 (2009), Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 2007 [038767ar.html]
  46. Pfau, T, The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Ecology of Reading, STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM, vol. 48 no. 1 (2009), pp. 159-165, ISSN 0039-3762 [Gateway.cgi]
  47. Pfau, T, Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Romantic Era, Comparative Literature, vol. 60 no. 3 (June, 2008), pp. 290-294, Duke University Press, ISSN 0010-4124 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  48. Pfau, T, Beyond liberal Utopia: Freedom as the problem of modernity, European Romantic Review, vol. 19 no. 2 (April, 2008), pp. 83-103, Informa UK Limited, ISSN 1050-9585 [doi]  [abs]
  49. Pfau, T, Review of Leon Chai, "Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era", Comparative Literature, vol. 60 no. 3 (2008), pp. 290-94 [pdf]
  50. Pfau, T, From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism (November, 2007), pp. 101-122, BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD [doi]
  51. Pfau, T, Of ends and endings: Teleological and variational models of romantic narrative, European Romantic Review, vol. 18 no. 2 (Spring, 2007), pp. 231-241, Informa UK Limited, ISSN 1050-9585 [doi]  [abs]
  52. Pfau, T, The philosophy of Shipwreck: Gnosticism, skepticism, and Coleridge's catastrophic modernity, MLN - Modern Language Notes, vol. 122 no. 5 (Winter, 2007), pp. 949-1004, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISSN 0026-7910 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  53. Pfau, T, Review of The Wordsworthian Enlightenment, ed. Helen R. Elam & Frances Ferguson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005), Romantic Circles (2007) [available here]
  54. Pfau, T, Review of 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, vol. 18 no. 3 (Spring, 2007), pp. 439-44 [pdf]
  55. Pfau, T, Beyond the Suburbs of the Mind: The Political and Aesthetic Economy of the Body in Malthus and Wordsworth, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 95 (2007), pp. 629-69 [pdf]
  56. Pfau, T, Beyond Liberal Utopia: Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, European Romantic Review, vol. 19 no. 1 (2007) [pdf]
  57. Pfau, T, The Melancholy Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Thought, Romantic Praxis (2007) [html]
  58. Medium and Message in German Modernism, edited by Pfau, T, vol. 2 (2006), pp. 250 pp.-250 pp. (This special issue contains six essays by notable people working in 19th c. and 20c. literary studies, philosophy, and musicology..) [asp]
  59. Pfau, T, Editor’s Introduction: Medium and Message in German Modernism, Modernist Cultures, vol. 1 no. 2 (October, 2005), pp. 69-71 [doi]
  60. Pfau, T, From Mediation to Medium: Aesthetic and Anthropological Dimensions of the Image (Bild) and the Crisis of Bildung in German Modernism, Modernist Cultures, vol. 1 no. 2 (October, 2005), pp. 141-180 [doi]
  61. Pfau, T, Rationality as Bewegung: From Kantian Autonomy to Hegel’s Self-Regulating System, in The Blackwell Companion to European Romanticism, edited by Ferber, M (2005), Blackwell [pdf]
  62. Pfau, T, Nineteenth-Century Lyric German Poetry, in Camden House History of German Literature, volume 9, vol 9 of Camden House History of German Literature, edited by Koelb, C; Downing, E, vol. 9 (Spring, 2005), pp. 201-242, Camden House [pdf]
  63. Pfau, T, Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840. (2005), Johns Hopkins University Press (Johns Hopkins University Press, October 2005 (http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/8432.html).) [pdf]  [abs] [author's comments]
  64. Pfau, T, From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism, in in "A Companion to European Romanticism", Blackwell Companions, edited by Ferber, M (2004), Blackwell
  65. Pfau, T, The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy, Comparative Literature, vol. 55 no. 4 (September, 2003), pp. 360-363, Duke University Press, ISSN 0010-4124 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  66. Pfau, T, Conjuring history: Lyric cliché, conservative fantasy, and traumatic awakening in German romanticism, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 102 no. 1 (Winter, 2003), pp. 53-92, Duke University Press, ISSN 0038-2876 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  67. Pfau, T, Review of Angela Esterhammer’s The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism, Criticism 44.1 (2003): 72-76 (2003), Stanford: Stanford UP, 2000 [pdf]
  68. Pfau, T, Review of Ian Balfour’s The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy, Comparative Literature (2003), Stanford: Stanford UP, 2002 [pdf]
  69. Pfau, T, Review of Emerson R. Marks, Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory since the Renaissance, MLQ (2003) ., vol. 60 no. 2 (2003), pp. 265-67 [pdf]
  70. Pfau, T, "From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism", edited by Romanticism, BCT (2003), Blackwell (edited Michael Ferber.)
  71. Pfau, T, The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism (review), Criticism, vol. 44 no. 1 (2002), pp. 72-76, Project MUSE, ISSN 0011-1589 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  72. Pfau, T, Nachtigallenwahnsinn and Rabbinismus: Heine’s Literary Provocation to German-Jewish Cultural Identity, in Romantic Poetry: Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, edited by Esterhammer, A (2002), pp. 427-44, John Benjamins [pdf]
  73. Pfau, T, The voice of critique: Aesthetic cognition after Kant, Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 60 no. 3 (September, 1999), pp. 321-352, Duke University Press, ISSN 0026-7929 (Previously published by Romantic Praxis http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/philosophy/pfau1/tp1.html.) [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  74. Pfau, T, Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory Since the Renaissance, Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 60 no. 2 (June, 1999), pp. 265-267, Duke University Press, ISSN 0026-7929 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  75. Pfau, T, Review of Terence A. Hoagwood’s Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts, Studies in Romanticism, vol. 38 no. 4 (1999), pp. 692-98, Carbondale: Northern Illinois UP, 1996 [pdf]
  76. Pfau, T; Hoagwood, TA, Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts, Studies in Romanticism, vol. 38 no. 4 (1999), pp. 692-692, JSTOR, ISSN 0039-3762 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  77. Pfau, T, Reading beyond Redemption: Historicism, Irony, and the Lessons of Romanticism, edited by Pfau, T; Gleckner, RF, Critical Introduction to Lessons of Romanticism, Duke UP (1998), pp. 1-37
  78. Pfau, T, Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion (1998), an anthology of twenty-one essays, Durham: Duke UP
  79. Pfau, T, Paranoia Historicized: Legal Fantasy, Social Change, and Satiric Meta-Commentary in the 1794 Treason Trials, in Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press, edited by Behrendt, SC (1997), pp. 221 pages, Wayne State University Press, ISBN 9780814325681 [pdf]
  80. Pfau, T, Paranoian Historicized: Legal Fantasy, Social Change, and Satiric Meta-Commentary in the 1794 Treason Trials, in Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press, edited by Behrendt, SC (1997), Detroit: Wayne State UP
  81. Pfau, T, Bringing about the Past: Prophetic Memory in Kant, Godwin, and Blake, Romantic Proxis (1997) [html]
  82. Pfau, T, Wordsworth’s Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Romantic Cultural Production (1997), pp. xiii + 460 pages, Stanford UP (http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=2902%20%20.) [pdf]  [author's comments]
  83. Pfau, T, Paranoian Historicized: Legal Fantasy, Social Change, and Satiric Meta-Commentary in the 1794 Treason Trials, in Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press, edited by Behrendt, SC (1997), Detroit: Wayne State UP
  84. T. Pfau, co-editor, Textual and Cultural Dissolution in English Romanticism, a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 95 no. iii (Summer 1996)
  85. Pfau, T, 'Positive Infamy': Surveillance, Ascendancy, and Pedagogyin Andrew Bell and Mary Wollstonecraft, Romanticism, vol. 2 no. 2 (January, 1996), pp. 220-242 [doi]
  86. Pfau, T, 'Searching their Hearts': Romantic Pedagogy, Social Ascendancy, and the Pleasures of Surveillance in Andrew Bell and Mary Wollstonecraft, Romanticism, vol. 2 no. ii (1996), pp. 220-46 [pdf]
  87. Pfau, T; Kercsmar, RR, Rhetorical and cultural dissolution in Romanticism - Introduction, SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY, vol. 95 no. 3 (1996), pp. 571-573, ISSN 0038-2876 [Gateway.cgi]
  88. Pfau, T, ''Beyond the suburbs of the mind'': The political and aesthetic disciplining of the Romantic body, SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY, vol. 95 no. 3 (Summer, 1996), pp. 629-669, ISSN 0038-2876 [Gateway.cgi]
  89. Pfau, T, Review of Martha Woodmansee’s The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics, Studies in Romanticism, vol. 34 (1995), pp. 490-95, New York: Columbia UP [pdf]
  90. Pfau, T, Immediacy and Dissolution: Reflections on Moral Theory and the Logic of Critical Discourse, in Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory, edited by Rajan, T; Clark, D (1995), Albany: State U of New York P [pdf]
  91. Pfau, T; Woodmansee, M, The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics, Studies in Romanticism, vol. 34 no. 3 (1995), pp. 490-490, JSTOR, ISSN 0039-3762 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  92. Pfau, T, Immediacy and Dissolution: Reflections on Moral Theory and the Logic of Critical Discourse, in Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory, edited by Rajan, T; Clark, D (1995), Albany: State U of New York P [pdf]
  93. Pfau, T, Idealism and the Endgames of Theory: Three Essays by F. W. J. Schelling (1994), pp. xiv + 293-xiv + 293, State U of New York P (Trans. and edited with a critical introduction.)
  94. Pfau, T, "Elementary Feelings" and "Distorted Language": The Pragmatics of Culture in Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads, New Literary History, vol. 24 no. 1 (1993), pp. 125-125, JSTOR, ISSN 0028-6087 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  95. Pfau, T, The Pragmatics of Genre: Moral Theory and Lyric Authorship in Hegel and Wordsworth, Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Review, vol. 10 no. ii (1992), pp. 397-422 (Reprinted in Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship, ed. Peter Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee [Durham: Duke UP, 1994].) [pdf]
  96. T. Pfau, Tropes of Desire: Figuring the 'Insufficient Void' of Self-Consciousness in Shelley's Epipsychidion, Keats-Shelley Journal, vol. XL (1991), pp. 99-126
  97. PFAU, T, TROPES OF DESIRE, FIGURING THE INSUFFICIENT VOID OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS IN SHELLEY 'EPIPSYCHIDION', KEATS-SHELLEY JOURNAL, vol. 40 (1991), pp. 99-126, ISSN 0453-4387 [Gateway.cgi]
  98. Pfau, T, Review of Wordsworth's Art of Allusion by Edward Stein, Studies in Romanticism, vol. 29 (1990), pp. 496-499, ISSN 0039-3762 [pdf]
  99. Pfau, T, Review of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean Luc Nancy’s The Literary Absolute, Studies in Romanticism, vol. 29 no. 2 (1990), pp. 309-13 [pdf]
  100. Pfau, T, Review of Edwin Stein’s Woodworth’s Art of Illusion, Studies in Romanticism, vol. 29 (1990), pp. 496-99
  101. Pfau, T, Immediacy and the Text: Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theory of Style and Interpretation, Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 51 no. i (1990), pp. 51-73
  102. Pfau, T, Review of Winfried Menninghaus’s Unendliche Verdopplung: Die Grundlegung der fruhromantischen Kunsttheorie im Begriff absoluter Selbstreflexion, MLN (German Issue), vol. 104 no. 3 (1989), pp. 729-33 [pdf]
  103. Pfau, T, Thinking before Totality: Kritik, Ubersetzung, and the Language of Interpretation in the early Walter Benjamin, MLN (Comparative Literature Issue), vol. 103 no. 5 (1988), pp. 1072-97 [pdf]
  104. Pfau, T, Review of Andrej Warminski’s Readings in Interpretation: Holderlin, Hegel, and Heidegger, MLN (Comparative Literature Issue), vol. 102 no. 5 (1987), pp. 1212-15 [pdf]
  105. Pfau, T, Rhetoric and the Existential: Romantic Studies and the Question of the Subject, Studies in Romanticism, vol. 26 (1987), pp. 487-512 [pdf]
  106. Pfau, T; translator, , Friedrich Hölderlin: Essays and Letters on Theory (1987), pp. xiv + 186-xiv + 186, State U of New York P (Trans. and ed., with a critical introduction.)