Acts of Inclusion: Studies Bearing on an Elementary Theory of Romanticism

by Michael G. Cooke

The copious attention visited on romanticism during recent decades has only rarely resulted in comprehensive theoretical constructions. This new work by Michael Cooke, offering an explicit theory of romanticism, is thus both needed and valuable. Cooke proposes that the multifariousness of the movement--found in single works and authors and compounded in the cross-relations among authors--is not an obstacle but a clue to grasping the singular essence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300023030
• ISBN13: 9780300023039
• Release Date: April 1979
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.6"