Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 311 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511999109
Serie:
Cambridge companions to literature
Inhalt:
This Companion offers a unique introduction, guide, and reference work for students and readers of Romantic literature. The age of British Romanticism was a period of turbulent transition between the professed stability of the Enlightenment before it and the Victorian middle-class culture which succeeded it. Against a background of international warfare, the Romantic age embodied in its greatest literature a sense of competing values and ideals explored sceptically in the creative process, rather than dogmatic certainties fulfilled in its completion. Recent scholarship has led to the rejection of the easy categories once used to label Romanticism, but until now there has been no concerted attempt to represent to students of the period the full range of conflicting forces responsible for its dynamic literature. The eleven original essays which make up this volume make a significant contribution to our understanding of the period, providing readers with clear and coherent access to the historical roots, intellectual ferment, and cultural range of British Romanticism. It includes a chronology of major publications and events, and an extensive guide to further reading
Inhalt:
Romanticism, criticism and theory / David Simpson -- Romanticism and Enlightenment / Marshall Brown -- Poetry in an age of revolution / P.M.S. Dawson -- German romantic idealism / Peter Thorslev -- Romanticism and language / William Keach -- Culture's medium : the role of the review / Marilyn Butler -- Romantic Hellenism / Timothy Webb -- Women readers, women writers / Stuart Curran -- Romantic fiction / Gary Kelly -- Romantic poetry : why and wherefore? / Stuart Curran -- The sister arts in British romanticism / Morris Eaves
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015)
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780521333559
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780521421935
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version ISBN 9780521333559
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1017/CCOL0521333555
