Romanticism (The New Critical Idiom)

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: <ul>
<li>William Blake</li> <li>William Wordsworth</li> <li>Samuel Taylor Coleridge</li> <li>John Keats</li> <li>Shelley</li> <li>Edmund Blake</li> <li>Thomas Paine</li> <li>Mary Wollstonecraft</li> <li>Jane Austen</li> <li>Charlotte Smith</li> <li>Anna Laetitia Barbauld</li>
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Romanticism takes a clear, wide-ranging view of the subject and is essential reading for students new to the subject.

Literature & Fiction

Day, Aidan

British & Irish

Routledge

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 Blake William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Keats Shelley Edmund Blake Thomas Paine Mary Wollstonecraft Jane Austen Charlotte Smith Anna Laetitia Barbauld Romanticism takes a clear, wide-ranging view of the subject and is essential reading for students new to the subject.

Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and American literary history. This clear and engaging guide introduces the history, major writers and critical issues of this crucial era. This fully updated second edition includes: <ul>
<li>Discussion of a broad range of writers including William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, H.D. Thoreau, Frederick Douglas</li> <li>A new chapter on American Romanticism</li> <li>Discussion of the romantic sublime or romantic imagination</li> <li>An engagement with critical debates such as postcolonialism, gender studies and ecocriticism.</li>
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History & Criticism

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A detailed analysis of Bob Dylan's major song lyrics looks at the themes of identity and consciousness, and includes a discussion of his performance style

Politics & Social Sciences

Blackwell Science Inc.

Arts & Photography

Music

Blackwell Pub.

Shadow Dance (1966), Heroes and Villains (1969), The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972), Wise Children 1991, and other novels and story collections by feminist author Carter are critically examined. Treating the novels chronologically, the author argues that Carter's themes remained consistent throughout her work, although he points to transitions of treatment within her opus. The major themes he finds within her works are her opposition to philosophical postmodernism and her devotion to reason and empiricism as part of a metaphysical materialism. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Angela Carter: The Rational Glass

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Manchester Univ Pr

This full scale study discusses Angela Carter's fiction in chronological order, and notes that although her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work, consistency of theme is not the same as repetition. The new angles and emphases that develop are partly from Carter's immersion in the changing intellectual debates of the times and, concurrently, arise from the reading she was doing at the different stages of her life, which stretched from the medieval through de Sade to Foucault.

Angela Carter

Manchester University Press

Tennyson is not known for his scepticism. This book argues that he should be. It proposes a revaluation of the way in which his work is read. Tennyson has always been understood as a poet who is committed primarily to endorsing spiritual values. But this study argues that much of his poetry is driven by a metaphysical scepticism that is associated, in part, with rational perspectives deriving from Enlightenment thought. The scepticism in Tennyson's poetry partakes in the complex generation of the modern that was taking place in his era. One of the purposes of the study is to demonstrate that a cultural studies approach to Tennyson trivialises his intellectual subtlety and complexity. Making extensive critical use of Tennyson's manuscript drafts, this study provides close readings of Tennyson's earlier, shorter poems, together with the principal works of his maturity including In Memoriam , Maud and The Lover's Tale , and will be a valuable resource for Tennyson students and scholars worldwide.

Tennyson's Scepticism

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Romanticism (The New Critical Idiom)

Romanticism (The New Critical Idiom)

Romanticism (The New Critical Idiom)

Romanticism (The New Critical Idiom)

Jokerman: Reading the Lyrics of Bob Dylan

Jokerman: Reading the Lyrics of Bob Dylan

Angela Carter: The Rational Glass

Angela Carter

Romanticism (The New Critical Idiom)

Tennyson's Scepticism