Sick Heroes: French Society and Literature in the Romantic Age, 1750-1850

By Allan H. Pasco

Book Overview

Sick Heroes examines the cultural practices that created those remarkably offensive, though strangely appealing, romantic heroes that appeared in European and especially in French literature in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Romanticism has long been considered a literary movement, but Pasco broadens its scope and suggests that it was a cultural reality born of widespread social factors and sustained by a mass market for novels, poems and plays that popularized attitudes and behaviour.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859895505
• ISBN13: 9780859895507
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"