Author : John William Draper
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 1929
Category : Elegiac poetry
ISBN :
Examines English funeral elegies and how they contributed to the birth of Romanticism.
Author : Bernard Herbert Stern
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 36,39 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Maureen N. McLane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 2000-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139426877
This study, published in 2000, examines the dialogue between Romantic poetry and the human sciences of the period. Maureen McLane reveals how Romantic writers participated in a new-found consciousness of human beings as a species, by analysing their work in relation to discourses on moral philosophy, political economy and anthropology. Writers such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley explored the possibilities and limits of human being, language and hope. They engaged with the work of theorisers of the human sciences - Malthus, Godwin and Burke among them. The book offers original readings of canonical works, including Lyrical Ballads, Frankenstein and Prometheus Unbound, to show how the Romantics internalised and transformed ideas about the imagination, perfectibility, immortality and population which so energised contemporary moral and political debates. McLane provides a defence of poetry in both Romantic and contemporary theoretical terms, reformulating the predicament of Romanticism in general and poetry in particular.
Author : Ian Watt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 1967
Category : English fiction
ISBN :
Author : Christopher John Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1303 pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1135455791
In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on the literature, thought, music, and art of the period, demonstrating the rich interplay of international influences and cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism.
Author :
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,48 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Herbert W. Starr
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1512818879
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author : G. Rousseau
Publisher : Springer
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 2004-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0230505155
These essays demonstrate the sweeping influence of the human nervous system on the rise of literature and sensibility in early modern Europe. The brain and nerves have usually been treated as narrow topics within the history of science and medicine. Now George Rousseau, an international authority on the relations of literature and medicine, demonstrates why a broader context is necessary. The nervous system was a crucial factor in the rise of recent civilization. More than any other body part, it holds the key to understanding how far back the strains and stresses of modern life - fatigue, depression, mental illness - extend.
Author : Ralph Anthony Houlbrooke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 34,89 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198208761
This volume examines the effects of religious change on the English way of death between 1480 and 1750. It discusses relatively neglected aspects of the subject such as the death-bed, will-making and the last rites.
Author : Jason McElligott
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843833239
A study of the content and methods of royalist propaganda via newsbooks in the crucial period following the end of the first civil war. This is a study of a remarkable set of royalist newsbooks produced in conditions of strict secrecy in London during the late 1640s. It uses these flimsy, ephemeral sheets of paper to rethink the nature of both royalism and Civil War allegiance. Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England moves beyond the simple and simplistic dichotomies of 'absolutism' versus 'constitutionalism'. In doing so, it offers a nuanced, innovative and exciting visionof a strangely neglected aspect of the Civil Wars. Print has always been seen as a radical, destabilizing force: an agent of social change and revolution. Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England demonstrates, bycontrast, how lively, vibrant and exciting the use of print as an agent of conservatism could be. It seeks to rescue the history of polemic in 1640s and 1650s England from an undue preoccupation with the factional squabbles of leading politicians. In doing so, it offers a fundamental reappraisal of the theory and practice of censorship in early-modern England, and of the way in which we should approach the history of books and print-culture. JASON McELLIGOTT is the J.P.R. Lyell Research Fellow in the History of the Early Modern Printed Book at Merton College, Oxford.
