The Romantic period coincided with revolutionary transformations of traditional political and human rights discourses, as well as witnessing rapid advances in technology and a primitivist return to nature. As a broad global movement, Romanticism strongly impacted on the literature and arts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in ways that are still being debated and negotiated today.
Examining the poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, and the arts of the period, this book considers:
Important propositions and landmark ideas in the Romantic period;
Key...
The Romantic period coincided with revolutionary transformations of traditional political and human rights discourses, as well as witnessing rapid ...
Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History is an accessible introduction to this broad movement which strongly impacted on the literature and arts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in ways that are still being debated and negotiated today.
Examining the poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, and the arts of the period, this book considers:
Important propositions and landmark ideas in the Romantic period;
Key debates and critical approaches to Romantic studies;
New and revisionary approaches to Romantic literature and art;
The ways...
Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History is an accessible introduction to this broad movement which strongly impacted on the literature and art...
