Reading Public Romanticism

by Paul Magnuson

Book Overview

Reading Public Romanticism is a significant new example of the linking of esthetics and historical criticism. Here Paul Magnuson locates Romantic poetry within a public discourse that combines politics and esthetics, nationalism and domesticity, sexuality and morality, law and legitimacy. Building on his well-regarded previous work, Magnuson practices a methodology of close historical reading by identifying precise versions of poems, reading...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691609047
• ISBN13: 9780691609041
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"