The long and winding road from Blake to the Beatles
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The long and winding road from Blake to the Beatles
(Nineteenth-century major lives and letters)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-221) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book traces the musical and cultural achievements of this contemporary musical phenomenon to its origin in the Romantic revolution of the 1790's in England when traditional concepts of literature, politics, education and social relationships were challenged as they were in the 1960's.
Table of Contents
Why the Beatles? The Transatlantic Genesis of Rock Romanticism The Nowhere Man and Mother Nature's Son: Coleridge/Lennon-Wordsworth/ McCartney and the Productivity of Resentment George Harrison and Byronic In-Between-ness Ringo Starr and the Anxiety of Romantic Childhood 'What matters is the system!': The Disappearance of God and the Rise of Conspiratorial Theorizing A New British Empire
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