Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History

by Carmen Casaliggi and Porscha Fermanis

Book Overview

The Romantic period coincided with revolutionary transformations of traditional political and human rights discourses, as well as witnessing rapid advances in technology and a primitivist return to nature. As a broad global movement, Romanticism strongly impacted on the literature and arts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in ways that are still being debated and negotiated today.

Examining the poetry, fiction, non-fiction,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415679087
• ISBN13: 9780415679084
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"