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Romanticism and the Object (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)
Larry H. Peer
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Description for Romanticism and the Object (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)
Hardcover. Romanticism and the Object explores ways in which European Romantic culture and its artifacts were shaped by 'object aesthetics,' a new and often disruptive use of objects in literary expression. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
Why are material objects so prominent in European Romantic literature, both as symbol and organizing device? This collection of essays maintains that European Romantic culture and its aesthetic artifacts were fundamentally shaped by "object aesthetics," an artistic idiom of acknowledging, through a profound and often disruptive use of objects, the movement of Western aesthetic practice into Romantic self-projection and imagination. Of course Romanticism, in all its dissonance and anxiety, is marked by a number of new artistic practices, all of which make up a new aesthetics, accounting for the dialectical and symbolistic view of literature that began in the late ... Read more
Why are material objects so prominent in European Romantic literature, both as symbol and organizing device? This collection of essays maintains that European Romantic culture and its aesthetic artifacts were fundamentally shaped by "object aesthetics," an artistic idiom of acknowledging, through a profound and often disruptive use of objects, the movement of Western aesthetic practice into Romantic self-projection and imagination. Of course Romanticism, in all its dissonance and anxiety, is marked by a number of new artistic practices, all of which make up a new aesthetics, accounting for the dialectical and symbolistic view of literature that began in the late ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
Number of Pages
223
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230617384
SKU
V9780230617384
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About Larry H. Peer
LARRY H. PEER is Professor of Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University, USA, Executive Director of the International Conference on Romanticism, and editor of the journal Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism, as well as author of several volumes.
Reviews for Romanticism and the Object (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)
"Modern criticism of Romanticism as a cultural movement has often struggled with the near fetishization of the object by Romantic artists. In Romanticism and the Object the complexity of the transforming Romantic gaze is explored in a series of compellingly argued essays that demonstrate that romanticizing the world and the objects in it was, and continues to be, a creative ... Read more