New Perspectives on the Romantic Media Concept

The Romantic period is often seen as a turning point in the dissolution of the Republic of Letters, leading to the specialization of literature, as shown in Germaine de Staël’s De la littérature (1800). Conversely, the ambition of this international conference is to show that, by continuing to think of itself as a means of transmitting knowledge and experience, Romantic literature not only extends the didactic project of the Enlightenment but also anticipates the Victorian period’s theorization of the media concept. In fact, as a growing body of scholarship attests, an emerging Romantic media concept proves crucial to understanding the Romantic reconfigurations of literature and provides a new perspective on Romanticism in its numerous international contexts.