Thomas Pfau
Alice Mary Baldwin Distinguished Professor of English
"THOMAS PFAU (PhD 1989, SUNY Buffalo)
is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English, with a secondary appointment in the Divinity School at Duke University. He has published some fifty essays on literary, philosophical, and theological subjects ranging from the 18th
through the early 20th
century. In addition to two translations, of Hölderlin and Schelling (SUNY Press, 1987 and 1994), he has also edited seven essay collections and special journal issues and is the author of four monographs: Wordsworth’s Profession
(Stanford UP 1997), Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, Melancholy, 1790-1840
(Johns Hopkins UP 2005),
Minding the Modern: Intellectual Traditions, Human Agency, and Responsible Knowledge
(Notre Dame UP, 2013), and Incomprehensible Certainty: Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image
(Notre Dame UP, 2022). He in the early stages of a new book project focused on the relationship between poetry and theology from 1800 to the present.
Office Hours
Fall 2022 Semester:
Wednesday 11:00 am-12:00 pm (312 Allen) and by appointment
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Alice Mary Baldwin Distinguished Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012
- Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2005
- Professor of Historical Theology, Divinity School, Duke University 2013
- Bass Fellow, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011
Contact Information
- 312 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
- Duke Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
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pfau@duke.edu
(919) 684-2741
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Books by Thomas Pfau
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https://duke.academia.edu/ThomasPfau
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., State University of New York - Buffalo 1989
- M.A., University of California - Irvine 1985
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of German Studies, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2005 - 2022
- Director of Graduate Studies of the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021
- Chair in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2017
- Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013 - 2014
- Eads Family Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2011
- Eads Family Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2005 - 2010
- Associate Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1997 - 2005
- Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1998 - 2005
- Assistant Professor, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1991 - 1997
- Recognition
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In the News
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MAY 29, 2013
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Awards & Honors
- Expertise
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Global Scholarship
- Research
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Selected Grants
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Pfau, Thomas. Incomprehensible Certainty Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image (Accepted). 2022.
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Pfau, Thomas, and Vivasvan Soni, editors. Judgment and Action Fragments toward a History. Northwestern University Press, 2017.
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Pfau, T. Minding the modern: Human agency, intellectual traditions, and responsible knowledge. 2013, pp. 1–675.
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Pfau, Thomas, and Robert Mitchell. Romanticism and Modernity. Routledge, 2011, pp. 246–246.Link to Item
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Pfau, T., and R. Mitchell, editors. Romanticism and Modernity. Routledge, 2011.
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Pfau, Thomas, editor. Medium and Message in German Modernism. Vol. 2, 2006, pp. 250pp.-250pp.
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Pfau, T. Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion. an anthology of twenty-one essays, Durham: Duke UP, 1998.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. Wordsworth’s Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Romantic Cultural Production. Stanford UP, 1997.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. Idealism and the Endgames of Theory: Three Essays by F. W. J. Schelling. State U of New York P, 1994, p. xiv+293-xiv+293.Link to Item
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Pfau, T., and T. translator. Friedrich Hölderlin: Essays and Letters on Theory. State U of New York P, 1987, p. xiv+186-xiv+186.
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Pfau, T. Textual and Cultural Dissolution in English Romanticism. Vol. 95.
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Academic Articles
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Pfau, T. “Kantian Aesthetics as "soft" Iconoclasm.” Logos (United States), vol. 24, no. 3, June 2021, pp. 69–88. Scopus, doi:10.1353/log.2021.0017.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Pfau, T. ““Superabundant being”: Disambiguating Rilke and Heidegger.” Modern Theology, vol. 35, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 23–42. Scopus, doi:10.1111/moth.12458.Full Text Open Access Copy
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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, Jan. 2019, pp. 20–41. Scopus, doi:10.1353/log.2019.0028.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Pfau, T. “Expanding Romanticism's Spatiotemporal, Disciplinary, and Conceptual Boundaries.” Keats Shelley Journal, vol. 68, Jan. 2019, pp. 160–62.
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Pfau, T. “On attention.” Salmagundi, vol. 2017-Spring, no. 194, Mar. 2017, pp. 145–63.Open Access Copy
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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, Sept. 2016, pp. 603–28. Scopus, doi:10.1215/10829636-3644062.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Pfau, Thomas. “A Modern Coleridge: Cultivation, Addiction, Habits.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 55, no. 1, 2016, pp. 134–38.Open Access Copy Link to Item
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Pfau, Thomas. “Cosmopolitan Sociality and the Bildungsroman.” Novel, vol. 48, no. 1, Duke University Press, May 2015, pp. 136–39. Crossref, doi:10.1215/00295132-2860453.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Pfau, T. “History without Hermeneutics: Brad Gregory’s Unintended Modernity.” The Immanent Frame, Nov. 2013.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Meta language and visual experience in The Stechlin.” German Quarterly, vol. 86, no. 4, Oct. 2013, pp. 421–43. Scopus, doi:10.1111/gequ.10190.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Pfau, T. “review of Tilottama Rajan, Romantic Narrative (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010).” The Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation, Oct. 2013.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Epochenwandel mit metaphysischen Anklängen: Metasprache und Bilderfahrung in Der Stechlin.” German Quarterly, vol. 86, 2013, pp. 420–42.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. Mourning Modernity:: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form. Sept. 2012. Scopus, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199228133.013.0032.Full Text Open Access Copy
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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, Mar. 2012, pp. 68–73.
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Pfau, Thomas. “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, University of Chicago Press, Feb. 2011, pp. E191–94. Crossref, doi:10.1086/659005.Full Text
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Pfau, T. “Rethinking the image: With some reflections on G. M. Hopkins.” Yearbook of Comparative Literature, vol. 57, Jan. 2011, pp. 117–47.Open Access Copy
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Pfau, T. Review of Paul Fry, Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are. 2011.Open Access Copy
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Pfau, T. “Bildungsspiele: Vicissitudes of socialization in Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship.” European Romantic Review, vol. 21, no. 5, Oct. 2010, pp. 567–87. Scopus, doi:10.1080/10509585.2010.499006.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Pfau, T., and R. Mitchell. “European Romantic Review: Introduction.” European Romantic Review, vol. 21, no. 5, Oct. 2010, pp. 545–51. Scopus, doi:10.1080/10509585.2010.499004.Full Text
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Pfau, T. “"All is leaf": Difference, metamorphosis, and Goethe's phenomenology of knowledge.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 49, no. 1, Jan. 2010, pp. 3–41. Scopus, doi:10.1353/srm.2010.0035.Full Text
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Pfau, T. “The letter of judgment: Practical reason in Aristotle, the Stoics, and Rousseau.” Eighteenth Century, vol. 51, no. 3, Jan. 2010, pp. 289–316.
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Mitchell, R., and T. Pfau. “NASSR 2009 Conference Volume.” European Romantic Review, vol. 21, no. 3, 2010.
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Mitchell, R., and Thomas Pfau. ““Romanticism and Form” special issue.” European Romantic Review, vol. 21, no. 5, 2010.
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Pfau, T. Bildung: Etiology, Function, Structure (with some reflections on Beethoven). Edited by Ulrich Gaier and et al, Bonner Universitätsverlag, 2010, pp. 123–41.
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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, Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, 2009.Link to Item
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Pfau, Thomas. “The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Ecology of Reading.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 48, no. 1, 2009, pp. 159–65.Link to Item
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Pfau, Thomas. “Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Romantic Era.” Comparative Literature, vol. 60, no. 3, Duke University Press, June 2008, pp. 290–94. Crossref, doi:10.1215/-60-3-290.Full Text
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Pfau, T. “Beyond liberal Utopia: Freedom as the problem of modernity.” European Romantic Review, vol. 19, no. 2, Apr. 2008, pp. 83–103. Scopus, doi:10.1080/10509580802030243.Full Text
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Pfau, T. “Review of Leon Chai, "Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era".” Comparative Literature, vol. 60, 2008, pp. 290–94.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism. Nov. 2007, pp. 101–22. Scopus, doi:10.1002/9780470996607.ch7.Full Text
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Pfau, T. “Of ends and endings: Teleological and variational models of romantic narrative.” European Romantic Review, vol. 18, no. 2, Apr. 2007, pp. 231–41. Scopus, doi:10.1080/10509580701297984.Full Text
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Pfau, T. “The philosophy of Shipwreck: Gnosticism, skepticism, and Coleridge's catastrophic modernity.” Mln Modern Language Notes, vol. 122, no. 5, Jan. 2007, pp. 949–1004. Scopus, doi:10.1353/mln.2008.0042.Full Text
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Pfau, T. “The Melancholy Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Thought.” Romantic Praxis, 2007.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Beyond Liberal Utopia: Freedom in the Nineteenth Century.” European Romantic Review, vol. 19, 2007.Link to Item
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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.Link to Item
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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, 2007, pp. 439–44.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Review of The Wordsworthian Enlightenment, ed. Helen R. Elam & Frances Ferguson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005).” Romantic Circles, 2007.
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Pfau, T. “Editor’s Introduction: Medium and Message in German Modernism.” Modernist Cultures, vol. 1, no. 2, Oct. 2005, pp. 69–71. Scopus, doi:10.3366/E2041102209000069.Full Text
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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, Oct. 2005, pp. 141–80. Scopus, doi:10.3366/E2041102209000094.Full Text
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Pfau, Thomas. “The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy.” Comparative Literature, vol. 55, no. 4, Duke University Press, Sept. 2003, pp. 360–63. Crossref, doi:10.1215/-55-4-360.Full Text
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Pfau, T. “Conjuring history: Lyric cliché, conservative fantasy, and traumatic awakening in German romanticism.” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 102, no. 1, Jan. 2003, pp. 53–92. Scopus, doi:10.1215/00382876-102-1-53.Full Text
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Pfau, T. "From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism". Edited by Blackwell Companion to Romanticism, Blackwell, 2003.
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Pfau, T. “Review of Emerson R. Marks, Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory since the Renaissance.” Mlq (2003) ., vol. 60, 2003, pp. 265–67.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Review of Ian Balfour’s The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy.” Comparative Literature, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2002, 2003.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Review of Angela Esterhammer’s The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism.” Criticism 44.1 (2003): 72 76, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2000, 2003.Link to Item
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Pfau, Thomas. “The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism (review).” Criticism, vol. 44, no. 1, Project MUSE, 2002, pp. 72–76. Crossref, doi:10.1353/crt.2002.0009.Full Text
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Pfau, T. “The voice of critique: Aesthetic cognition after Kant.” Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 3, Sept. 1999, pp. 321–52. Scopus, doi:10.1215/00267929-60-3-321.Full Text
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Pfau, Thomas. “Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory Since the Renaissance.” Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 2, Duke University Press, June 1999, pp. 265–67. Crossref, doi:10.1215/00267929-60-2-265.Full Text
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Pfau, T. “Review of Terence A. Hoagwood’s Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 38, Carbondale: Northern Illinois UP, 1996, 1999, pp. 692–98.Link to Item
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Pfau, Thomas, and Terence Allan Hoagwood. “Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 38, no. 4, JSTOR, 1999, pp. 692–692. Crossref, doi:10.2307/25601422.Full Text
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Pfau, T. “Reading beyond Redemption: Historicism, Irony, and the Lessons of Romanticism.” Critical Introduction to Lessons of Romanticism, Duke Up, edited by Thomas Pfau and Robert F. Gleckner, 1998, pp. 1–37.
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Pfau, T. Paranoian Historicized: Legal Fantasy, Social Change, and Satiric Meta-Commentary in the 1794 Treason Trials. Edited by Stephen C. Behrendt, Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1997.
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Pfau, T. “Bringing about the Past: Prophetic Memory in Kant, Godwin, and Blake.” Romantic Proxis, 1997.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “'Searching their Hearts': Romantic Pedagogy, Social Ascendancy, and the Pleasures of Surveillance in Andrew Bell and Mary Wollstonecraft.” Romanticism, vol. 2, 1996, pp. 220–46.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “'Positive Infamy': Surveillance, Ascendancy, and Pedagogyin Andrew Bell and Mary Wollstonecraft.” Romanticism, vol. 2, no. 2, Jan. 1996, pp. 220–42. Scopus, doi:10.3366/rom.1996.2.2.220.Full Text
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Pfau, T. “''Beyond the suburbs of the mind'': The political and aesthetic disciplining of the Romantic body.” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 95, no. 3, 1996, pp. 629–69.Link to Item
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Pfau, T., and R. R. Kercsmar. “Rhetorical and cultural dissolution in Romanticism - Introduction.” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 95, no. 3, 1996, pp. 571–73.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. Immediacy and Dissolution: Reflections on Moral Theory and the Logic of Critical Discourse. Edited by Tilottama Rajan and David Clark, Albany: State U of New York P, 1995.
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Pfau, T. “Review of Martha Woodmansee’s The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 34, New York: Columbia UP, 1995, pp. 490–95.Link to Item
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Pfau, Thomas, and Martha Woodmansee. “The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 34, no. 3, JSTOR, 1995, pp. 490–490. Crossref, doi:10.2307/25601133.Full Text
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Pfau, Thomas. “"Elementary Feelings" and "Distorted Language": The Pragmatics of Culture in Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads.” New Literary History, vol. 24, no. 1, JSTOR, 1993, pp. 125–125. Crossref, doi:10.2307/469275.Full Text
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Pfau, T. “The Pragmatics of Genre: Moral Theory and Lyric Authorship in Hegel and Wordsworth.” Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Review, vol. 10, 1992, pp. 397–422.Link to Item
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PFAU, T. “TROPES OF DESIRE, FIGURING THE INSUFFICIENT VOID OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS IN SHELLEY 'EPIPSYCHIDION'.” Keats Shelley Journal, vol. 40, 1991, pp. 99–126.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Review of Wordsworth's Art of Allusion by Edward Stein.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 29, 1990, pp. 496–99.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Immediacy and the Text: Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theory of Style and Interpretation.” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 51, 1990, pp. 51–73.
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Pfau, T. “Review of Edwin Stein’s Woodworth’s Art of Illusion.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 29, 1990, pp. 496–99.
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Pfau, T. “Review of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean Luc Nancy’s The Literary Absolute.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 29, 1990, pp. 309–13.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Review of Winfried Menninghaus’s Unendliche Verdopplung: Die Grundlegung der fruhromantischen Kunsttheorie im Begriff absoluter Selbstreflexion.” Mln (German Issue), vol. 104, 1989, pp. 729–33.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Thinking before Totality: Kritik, Ubersetzung, and the Language of Interpretation in the early Walter Benjamin.” Mln (Comparative Literature Issue), vol. 103, 1988, pp. 1072–97.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Rhetoric and the Existential: Romantic Studies and the Question of the Subject.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 26, 1987, pp. 487–512.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Review of Andrej Warminski’s Readings in Interpretation: Holderlin, Hegel, and Heidegger.” Mln (Comparative Literature Issue), vol. 102, 1987, pp. 1212–15.Link to Item
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Book Sections
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Pfau, T. “Absolute Gegebenheit: Image as aesthetic Urphanomen in Husserl and Rilke.” Phenomenology to the Letter: Husserl and Literature, 2020, pp. 227–60. Scopus, doi:10.1515/9783110654585-011.Full Text
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Pfau, T. “Rational Theology and the Catholic Critique of Modernity, 1780-1830.” The Oxford Handbook on European Romanticism, edited by Hamilton Kings C. Paul and Hamilton Kings C. London, 2014.
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Pfau, T. “Wagner hören im Zeitalter kultureller Überdetermination: Adorno’s Versuch über Wagner.” Jenseits von Bayreuth: Richard Wagner Heute, edited by Stefan Boernchen and Georg Mein, Fink Verlag, 2014.
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Pfau, T. “’A certain mediocrity' Moral Sentiments and Early Behaviorism in A. Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments.” Romanticism and the Emotions, edited by Joel Faflak and Richard Sha, Cambridge UP, 2014.
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Pfau, T. “A certain mediocrity: Adam Smith’s moral behaviorism.” Romanticism and the Emotions, 2012, pp. 48–75. Scopus, doi:10.1017/CBO9781107280564.003.Full Text
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Pfau, T. “The Appearance of Stimmung: Play as Virtual Rationality.” Stimmung: Zur Wiederkehr Einer Ästhetischen Kategorie?, edited by A. Gisbertz, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2011.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “The Bildungsroman.” The Blackwell Encylopedia of Romantic Literature, edited by F. Burwick et al., Blackwell, 2011, pp. 124–32.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “William Paley.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 4 Vols., edited by Frederick Burwick and Nancy Goslee, Blackwell, 2011.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Between sentimentality and phantasmagoria: German lyric poetry, 1830–1890.” German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899, vol. 9, 2010, pp. 207–50.
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Pfau, T. “Bildung: Etiology, Function, Structure (with some reflections on Beethoven).” Die Romantik: Ein Gründungsmythos Der EuropEuropäischen Moderne, edited by Ulrich Gaier, Bonner Universitätsverlag, 2010, pp. 123–41.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Mourning Modernity: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form.” The Oxford Handbook on the Elegy, 2009.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Rationality as Bewegung: From Kantian Autonomy to Hegel’s Self-Regulating System.” The Blackwell Companion to European Romanticism, edited by M. Ferber, Blackwell, 2005.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Nineteenth-Century Lyric German Poetry.” Camden House History of German Literature, Volume 9, edited by Clayton Koelb and Eric Downing, 2005, pp. 201–42.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism.” In “A Companion to European Romanticism,” edited by Michael Ferber, Blackwell, 2004.
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Pfau, T. “Nachtigallenwahnsinn and Rabbinismus: Heine’s Literary Provocation to German-Jewish Cultural Identity.” Romantic Poetry: Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, edited by A. Esterhammer, John Benjamins, 2002, pp. 427–44.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Paranoia Historicized: Legal Fantasy, Social Change, and Satiric Meta-Commentary in the 1794 Treason Trials.” Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press, edited by Stephen C. Behrendt, Wayne State University Press, 1997.Link to Item
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Pfau, T. “Paranoian Historicized: Legal Fantasy, Social Change, and Satiric Meta-Commentary in the 1794 Treason Trials.” Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press, edited by Stephen C. Behrendt, Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1997.
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Pfau, T. “Immediacy and Dissolution: Reflections on Moral Theory and the Logic of Critical Discourse.” Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory, edited by Tilottama Rajan and David Clark, Albany: State U of New York P, 1995.Link to Item
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Recent Courses
- ARTHIST 281S: Modernism and the Arts 2023
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- ENGLISH 290-7: Special Topics in Language and Literature 2023
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- ETHICS 290: Special Topics in Ethics 2023
- GERMAN 282S: Modernism and the Arts 2023
- GERMAN 290-1: Special Topics in German Studies 2023
- LIT 282S: Modernism and the Arts 2023
- LIT 290: Special Topics in International Literature and Culture 2023
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- XTIANTHE 783: Poetry and/as Theology II: T. S. Eliot, Czeslaw Milosz, Geoffrey Hill 2023
- XTIANTHE 890: Theological Topics 2023
- ENGLISH 319S: Narrative and Moral Crisis 2022
- ENGLISH 491: Independent Study 2022
- ENGLISH 590S-4: Special Topics Seminar in Criticism, Theory, or Methodology 2022
- ENGLISH 890S: Special Topics Seminar 2022
- ETHICS 320S: Narrative and Moral Crisis 2022
- GERMAN 590S: Special Topics in German Studies 2022
- LS 890: Special Readings 2022
- XTIANTHE 782: Poetry and/as Theology: Part I – G. M. Hopkins, Paul Claudel, R. M. Rilke 2022
- ENGLISH 101S: The Art of Reading 2021
- ENGLISH 591: Special Readings - Independent Study 2021
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- XTIANTHE 852: Modern Theological Anthropology I: Pascal 2021
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Presentations & Appearances
- 'Seeing and being-seen coincide': Freedom as Contemplation in Nicholas of Cusa & G. M. Hopkins.. Yale University. September 21, 2018 2018
- Spontaneous Forms: Acheiropoiesis and Assent in Tolstoy and G. M. Hopkins. February 22, 2014 2014
- Organic Form and its Consequences. Stanford University. December 23, 2013 2013
- Wagner hören im Zeitalter kultureller Überdetermination: Adorno’s Versuch über Wagner. June 26, 2013 2013
- After Sentimentalism: Liberalism and the Discontents of Modern Autonomy. August 18, 2012 2012
- The Appearance of Form: G. M. Hopkins' Journals and early Phenomenology. December 2, 2011 2011
- 'A certain mediocrity"' Moral Sentiments and Early Behaviorism in A. Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments.. March 23, 2011 2011
- Community as Metaphysics: Coleridge on Person & Conscience.. March 14, 2011 2011
- Community as Metaphysics: Coleridge on Person & Conscience. November 13, 2010 2010
- Coleridge on ―Action‖ and ―Person‖. August 21, 2010 2010
- Virtually Rational: Play, Teleology, and the Modernity of Goethe's 'Wilhelm Meister'. June 10, 2010 2010
- Virtually Rational: Play, Teleology, and the Modernity of Goethe's 'Wilhelm Meister'. June 9, 2010 2010
- Virtually Rationa: Play and Narrative Form in Kant and Goethe. March 26, 2010 2010
- 'All is Leaf': Difference, Form, and the Beginnings of Phenomenology around 1800. February 4, 2010 2010
- Ambivalent Modernity: Romanticism, Literature, and Political Economy.. November 10, 2009 2009
- Stimmungsspiele: Play, Teleology, and Virtual Rationality in Wilhelm Meister. October 29, 2009 2009
- 'All is Leaf‘: Organic Form in Goethe and Beethoven. September 29, 2009 2009
- On the pre-History of the Liberal Nation State: Voluntarism and Rational Community before Hegel. Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. April 22, 2009 2009
- From Opposition to Metamorphosis: Rethinking Difference through Hegel and Goethe. February 10, 2009 2009
- Longing (Sehnsucht): of Human Time and Elegiac Form in early Romanticism. August 22, 2008 2008
- Towards an Interdisciplinary Theory of 'Bildung'. April 21, 2008 2008
- Mourning Modernity: Temporality and Elegiac Form around 1800. April 13, 2008 2008
- Ambivalent Modernity in Rousseau and Goethe. March 14, 2008 2008
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