The overarching myth was that of the Ottoman Empire, a huge and exotic superpower, an empire to rival Rome, a major threat to Europe, with an invincible military record ruled by a Sultan with absolute, even feckless, power of life and death over his subjects who lived to ̀delight…
Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broad theoretical issues in European Romanticism at l…
This text explores how late 18th and early 19th century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broad theoretical issues in European Romanticism at large.
How much can we know about what other people are feeling and how much can we sympathize or empathize with them? The term "intimacy"--Which has always referred both to the inmost and personal, and to relationships of exceptional closeness--captures a tension between a confidence …