Romanticism (New Critical Idiom)

Romanticism (New Critical Idiom)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 217 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780415122665
  • DDC分類 820.9145

Full Description


Aidan Day considers the history and usage of the term Romanticism, and the changing views and debates which surround it. He traces its history through nineteenth and twentieth-century readings, incorporating contemporary debates such as feminism, post-structuralism and new historicism. Day places the traditional canon in the wider context of their contemporary political and philosophical thinkers. A range of writers, both canonical and non-canonical, are included in his survey, including:William BlakeWilliam WordsworthSamuel Taylor ColeridgeJohn KeatsShelleyEdmund BlakeThomas PaineMary WollstonecraftJane AustenCharlotte SmithAnna Laetitia BarbauldRomanticism takes a clear, wide-ranging view of the subject and is essential reading for students new to the subject.

Contents

Introduction. Towards a Definition. 1. Enlightenment or Romantic; Humanitarianism; Nature; Enlightenment or Sensibility; 2. Constructions of the term 'Romantic'; Politics and Literature; Poststructuralism and Romanticism; 3. Enlightenment and Romantic; Politics and Spirituality; Conservative Novelists; Historicism and Romanticism; New Radicalism; Romanticism and Conservatism; 4. Gender and the Sublime; Primary Sources; Bibliography; Index