Romanticism

ISBN-13: 9780415460255 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 232 str.

Aidan Day

Opis

In this book, Aidan Day considers the history and usage of the term Romanticism, and the changing views and debates which surround it, and traces its history through 19th and 20th century readings, incorporating contemporary debates.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Enlightenment or Romantic?  2. Constructions of the Term Romantic  3. Enlightenment and Romantic  4. American Romanticism

O autorze

Aidan Day is Professor of English at the University of Dundee, Scotland and has held Chairs in English at University of Edinburgh and at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He specialises in literature of the ‘long’ Nineteenth Century and in post-1945 literatures in English. He is the author of numerous articles and his books include Tennyson’s Scepticism (2005), Angela Carter: The Rational Glass (1998), Romanticism (1st Edition, 1996) and Jokerman: Reading the Lyrics of Bob Dylan (1988). He is also co-editor, with Christopher Ricks, of The Tennyson Archive, 31 vols., 1987-93.