The Harry Levin Prize Citation 1985
Virgil Nemoianu, The Taming of Romanticism: European literature and the age of Biedermeier (Princeton UP, 1985)
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The ACLA is pleased to award the Harry Levin Prize in Comparative Literature for 1985 to Virgil Nemoianu. His The Taming of Romanticism (Harvard University Press, 1984) presents a new intellectual framework for understanding European literature of the period 1815-1848, and the originality of his historical and critical formulations is matched by the broad sweep of the many European literatures from which he draws his examples for analysis. A truly comparative study, The Taming of Romanticism, while suggesting some answers, also proposes new questinos pertinent to the history of 19th century literature and literary periodization as a whole.
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The ACLA is pleased to award the Harry Levin Prize in Comparative Literature for 1985 to Virgil Nemoianu. His The Taming of Romanticism (Harvard University Press, 1984) presents a new intellectual framework for understanding European literature of the period 1815-1848, and the originality of his historical and critical formulations is matched by the broad sweep of the many European literatures from which he draws his examples for analysis. A truly comparative study, The Taming of Romanticism, while suggesting some answers, also proposes new questinos pertinent to the history of 19th century literature and literary periodization as a whole.