La Questione Romantica

THIS PERIODICAL AIMS TO UNDERSTAND THE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESS OF ROMANTIC PERIOD CULTURE THROUGH FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS THAT AROSE AT THE END OF THE 18TH CENTURY, CHARACTERISING THE HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD, STARTING FROM THE IMPACT OF ENGLAND’S INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, THE REVOLUTIONS IN AMERICA IN FRANCE, THE ARISTOCRATIC CRISES AND THE BIRTH OF A NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN INDIA, GERMANY AND GREECE. IT DOES NOT AIM TO FORCE RIGID EPOCHAL LIMITS ON THE ROMANTIC TIME PERIOD, BUT TRACE AND INVESTIGATE SAID PERIOD’S EFFECTS ON OUR MODERN CIVILIZATION. LA QUESTIONE ROMANTICA IS OPEN TO ALL FORMS OF INTERPRETATIONS AND CONTEXTUALISATION OF TEXTS AND, IN PARTICULAR, IT BENEFITS FROM A COMPARATIVE, INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE TO DEVELOP VARIOUS ARTISTIC AND LITERARY TOOLS THAT BETTER DEFINE THE WORKS’ AESTHETIC AND SOCIAL VALUES. TO UNDERSCORE THE INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY AIMS OF THIS PERIODICAL, IT WELCOMES ESSAYS IN ITALIAN, FRENCH AND ENGLISH WITH AN EDITORIAL BOARD OF EXPERTS WHO WORK IN VARIOUS EUROPEAN AND NON-EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. THE REDISCOVERY OF ROMANTIC SUBJECTIVITY INTENDS TO CULTIVATE A CONSCIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD’S CONTRADICTORY NATURE, NO LONGER HIDDEN IN THE STORIES OF THE ICONIC FIGURES OF THE PAST BUT THRUST INTO THE UNCERTAINTY OF OUR EVERYDAY LIVES, BRINGING LIGHT TO A GREAT NUMBER OF ISSUES RELATED TO THE VERY DEFINITION OF ROMANTICISM