Romanticism

Author(s)

• Day, Aidan

Bibliographic Information

Romanticism

Aidan Day

（The new critical idiom）

Routledge, 2012

2nd ed

• : pbk
• : hbk

Note

Previous ed.: 1996

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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: 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 A new chapter on American Romanticism Discussion of the romantic sublime or romantic imagination An engagement with critical debates such as postcolonialism, gender studies and ecocriticism.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Enlightenment or Romantic? 2. Constructions of the Term Romantic 3. Enlightenment and Romantic 4. American Romanticism

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Details

• NCID: BB07991516
• ISBN:
  • 9780415460262
  • 9780415460255
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: 221 p.
• Size: 20-21 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 820.9145
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Romanticism
  • LCSH : English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA26552607