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Description for Romanticism
Paperback. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 262.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
The New Critical Idiom
Condition
New
Weight
255g
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415460262
SKU
V9780415460262
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Aidan Day
Aidan Day is Professor of English at the University of Dundee, Scotland and has held Chairs in English at University of Edinburgh and at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He specialises in literature of the ‘long’ Nineteenth Century and in post-1945 literatures in English. He is the author of numerous articles and his books include Tennyson’s Scepticism (2005), Angela Carter: ... Read more
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