English Romantic Irony: ,

by Anne K. Mellor

Book Overview

Anne Mellor here offers the conceptual framework for a better understanding of the Romantic writers. Her penetrating study yields new interpretations of Byron, Keats, Carlyle, and Coleridge. The Romantics have been seen as expressing a secularized version of a divinely ordered universe. Mellor emphasizes another strain in Romanicism, one linked to the philosophical skepticism and social turbulence of the age: a conception of the universe as random...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674256905
• ISBN13: 9780674256903
• Release Date: September 1980
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.6"