While attempting to buy Christmas presents in the local Mall, Mark, an art-historian, sees and follows a girl into a second-hand bookshop. She has vanished - but in the window is a paperback bible with Blake's picture, 'Eve Naming the Birds', as cover design. Recognizing the likeness to the girl he has just followed, he tries to buy the book, but finds it not for sale. Further research reveals that no such cover-design was apparently ever produced. Returning to the Mall, he finds the bookshop has itself disappeared. From a door in another shop, he finds himself in Felpham in 1803, temporary...
While attempting to buy Christmas presents in the local Mall, Mark, an art-historian, sees and follows a girl into a second-hand bookshop. She has van...
First published in 1981. This book aims to show Romanticism as a response to certain questions in literature, art, religion, philosophy and politics that were being asked increasingly towards the end of the eighteenth century. The essays focus on growth and change (in society and the individual), nature, feeling and reason, and subjectivism examining how these questions arose, why they were felt to be important and the kinds of answers that, consciously or unconsciously, the Romantics provided. This title will be of interest to students of literature, history and philosophy. "
First published in 1981. This book aims to show Romanticism as a response to certain questions in literature, art, religion, philosophy and politic...
