"Accompanied by a detailed chronology and plentiful suggestions for further reading, this book provides a solid foundation for students to make their own sense of the poetry, fiction and other creative writing that emerged as part of the Romantic literary tradition."--Jacket.
In what is sure to become a critical classic, this book challenges Sergei Eisenstein's influential account of Dickens and early American film by tracing the unexpected history and intricate strategies of the sentimental mode and showing how it has been reimagined over the past t…
"In the middle of the eighteenth century, something new made itself felt in European culture -- a tone or style that came to be called the sentimental. The sentimental mode went on to shape not just literature, art, music, and cinema, but people's very structures of feeling, the…
This study of the Romantics--Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, Scott, Bryon, Shelley, and Keats--places these richly varied writers into their proper historical setting. Butler relates the French and American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the expansion of agriculture, tra…
"Justin Clemens presents a valuable study of the links between Romanticism and contemporary theory. The central contention of this book is that contemporary theory is still essentially Romantic - despite all its declarations to the contrary, and despite all its attempts to elude…
The influence of India on English romantic poetry.
Schr. bespreekt in het licht van zijn stelling, dat creatieve verbeeldingskracht reeds tijdens de Verlichting van belang werd, ideeën van achttiende-eeuwse Duitse en Engelse denkers en auteurs.
"Far from being mere antiquarian or sentimental curiosities, the rebuilt or reused fortresses of the Rhine reflect major changes in Germany and Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taylor begins The Castles of the Rhine with a synopsis of the major politic…
Far from being mere antiquarian or sentimental curiosities, the rebuilt or reused fortresses of the Rhine reflect major changes in Germany and Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taylor begins The Castles of the Rhine with a synopsis of the major politica…
"Using Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis as his primary example, David Ferris proposes a new conception of the Romantic cycle. Rather than try to demonstrate that the cycle of songs creates a unified whole, he focuses on the ways in which the fragmentary and open-ended nature o…