Romanticism and the Painful Pleasures of Modern Life - 9780521884020
Un libro in lingua di Henderson Andrea K. edito da Cambridge Univ Pr, 2008
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In their pursuit of emotional extremes, writers of the Romantic period were fascinated by experiences of pain and misery, and explored the ability to derive pleasure, and produce creative energy, out of masochism and submission. These interests were closely connected to the failure of the industrial and democratic revolutions to fulfil their promise of increased economic and political power for everyone. Writers as different as Frances Burney, William Hazlitt, John Keats, and Lord Byron both challenged and came to terms with the injustices of modern life through their representations of submission. Andrea K. Henderson teases out these configurations and analyses the many ways ideas of mastery and subjection shaped Romantic artistic forms, from literature and art to architecture and garden design. This provocative and ambitious study ranges widely through early nineteenth-century culture to reveal the underlying power relations that shaped Romanticism.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Romanticism and the Painful Pleasures of Modern Life
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Henderson Andrea K.
- Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr
- Collana: Cambridge Univ Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 30 Aprile '08
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : English literature 18th century History and criticism English literature 19th century History and criticism Romanticism Great Britain
- Pagine: 295
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0521884020
- EAN-13: 9780521884020