Romantic Studies is one of the most vibrant areas in British literary and cultural theory, and the concept of Romanticism has been thoroughly investigated and reshaped in the past decades. This handbook will provide an introduction to the fundamental systematic questions as well…
From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley. It ultimately challenges the cultural assumptions of both …
Content: Foreword: Imagination and Fact : A Lover's Quarrel / Frank Ankersmit -- The Quarrel Begins? -- Romancing the Past : Presence and Intangibilities of History -- Reality of Representation, Reality behind Representation : History and Memory -- Whose Mandir? Whose Masjid? Th…
Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today. Qualifying the 'non-historian' as an 'able' interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current …
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 broader theoretical issues.
