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This volume, part of the History of Platonism in the Modern Age series, is the first of its kind, offering a comprehensive treatment of the Platonic currents that informed and inspired the English Romantic and American Transcendentalist movements in Britain and the United States over a hundred-year period, from the 1780s to the 1880s. Scholars have long understood that the primary figures of this period – Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Thoreau – were Platonic in some sense, although this characterization grew vaguer and more pejorative in the latter part of the twentieth century. Indeed, the post-structural turn in the academy often entailed that this affiliation be excised from our understanding of Romanticism. As a result, Platonism was most often employed reductively as a foil for a metaphysics that the Romantics sought to overcome, rather than a rich and complex heritage that helped to shape one of the most fertile artistic and philosophical periods of the modern West.

 

This project will bring together contributors from across a multiplicity of disciplines to produce a systematic resource. It is will be edited by John M. Corrigan (Chengchi) and Alexander JB Hampton (University of Toronto).​

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Contributors 

Kevin Corrigan (Emory University)

Andrew Baker

Martina Zamparo (University of Udine)

Adam Gage Walker

Alexander J.B. Hampton (University of Toronto)

Madeleine Callaghan (University of Sheffield)

Gordon Graham (Princeton Theological Seminary)

Jay Bregman (University of Maine)

Joseph Urbas (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)

Alice de Galzain (Sorbonne Université)

James D. Reid (Metropolitan State University of Denver)

Ágnes Péter (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)

Li-hsin Hsu (National Chengchi University)

Peter Cheyne (Hiroshima University)

Danielle Follett (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Randall E. Auxier (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)

Fabio Camilletti (University of Warwick)

Giles Whiteley (Stockholm University)

Daniel David Inman (Warburg Institute)

David Withun

Harry Lee Poe (Union University)

John Corrigan (National Chengchi University)

Laura Dassow Walls (University of Notre Dame)

Justin Prystash (National Taiwan Normal University)

Natalie Tal Harries (University of Aberdeen)

Emile Alexandrov (Waseda University, Tokyo)

Daniel S. Malachuk (Western Illinois University)

Joscelyn Godwin (Colgate University)

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Colloquium

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A colloquium for contributors will take place in September 2026.