Romanticism and the painful pleasures of modern life

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Romanticism and the painful pleasures of modern life

Andrea K. Henderson

(Cambridge studies in romanticism, v. 75)

Cambridge University Press, 2011, c2008

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"First published 2008. First paperback edition 2011"--T.p. verso

"Paperback re-issue" -- back cover

Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-288) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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. In this book, 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.

目次

  • Introduction: submitting to liberty
  • 1. Finance and flagellation
  • 2. From Sadism to masochism in the novels of Frances Burney
  • 3. The Aesthetics of passion: Joanna Baillie's defense of the picturesque in an age of sublimity
  • 4. Practicing politics in the comfort of home
  • 5. Mastery and melancholy in suburbia
  • Conclusion: languishing femmes fatales
  • Bibliography.

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