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European Romanticism: A Brief History with Documents
Warren Breckman
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The introductory essay is superb, the best short introduction to Romanticism I know. It is comprehensive, covering both the wide range of spheres that Romanticism affected--literature, philosophy, art, music, politics, nationalism--and the broad spectrum of European countries in which it was an influential cultural current. It offers a distinctive, unified interpretation of Romanticism that nonetheless does justice to the complexities of Romantic ideas. --Gerald Izenberg, Washington University in St. Louis
The introductory essay is superb, the best short introduction to Romanticism I know. It is comprehensive, covering both the wide range of spheres that Romanticism affected--literature, philosophy, art, music, politics, nationalism--and the broad spectrum of European countries in which it was an influential cultural current. It offers a distinctive, unified interpretation of Romanticism that nonetheless does justice to the complexities of Romantic ideas. --Gerald Izenberg, Washington University in St. Louis
Product Details
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9781624663772
SKU
V9781624663772
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99-12
About Warren Breckman
Warren Breckman is the Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. A cultural and intellectual historian of modern Europe, his other books include Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory (1999) and Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-marxism and Radical Democracy (2013). He is the executive co-editor of the Journal of the ... Read more
Reviews for European Romanticism: A Brief History with Documents
The complexity and range of European Romanticism cannot be conveyed to students by assigning only one or two texts; at the same time, students need a clear and confident guide if they are not going to become lost in a maze of texts and interpretations. Breckman' book meets these competing demands. His Introduction, in particular, provides one of the clearest ... Read more