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Author: Andrea K. Henderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-03-20
Total Pages: 14
ISBN-13: 0521884020
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An exploration of the Romantic obsession with power, submission and masochism, through readings of Byron, Keats, Burney and others.
Author: Jeremy Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-03-14
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1135016739
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shortlisted for the University English Early Career Book Prize 2016 Shortlisted for the British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Prize 2015 When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the body gave rise to unsettling but irresistible questions. Urged on by some of their most deeply felt preoccupations – and in the case of figures like Coleridge and P. B. Shelley, by their own experiences of chronic pain – many writers found themselves drawn to the imaginative scrutiny of bodies in extremis. Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature reveals the significance of physical hurt for the poetry, philosophy, and medicine of the Romantic period. This study looks back to eighteenth-century medical controversies that made pain central to discussions about the nature of life, and forward to the birth of surgical anaesthesia in 1846. It examines why Jeremy Bentham wrote in defence of torture, and how pain sparked the imagination of thinkers from Adam Smith to the Marquis de Sade. Jeremy Davies brings to bear on Romantic studies the fascinating recent work in the medical humanities that offers a fresh understanding of bodily hurt, and shows how pain could prompt new ways of thinking about politics, ethics, and identity.
Author: Katherine Binhammer
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2020-04-28
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1421437619
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An audacious epilogue arms humanists with the argument that, in order to save the planet from unsustainable growth, we need to read more novels.
Author: T. Schmid
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-12-12
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0230117473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this text nine scholars discuss the aesthetics, culture, and science of pleasure in the Romantic period. Richard Sha, Denise Gigante, and Anya Taylor, among others, make a timely contribution to recent debates about issues of pleasure, taste, and appetite by looking anew at the work of figures such as Byron, Coleridge, and Austen.
Author: Neil Ramsey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-02-28
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1009100440
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book illuminates the genesis and development of modern war writing in relation to Romanticism, biopolitics and disciplinary theory.
Author: A. Dick
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-04-08
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 113729292X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Through a close analysis of the pamphlets, reviews, lectures, journalism, editorials, poems, and novels surrounding the introduction of the gold standard in 1816, this book examines the significance of monetary policy and economic debate to the culture and literature of Britain during the age of Romanticism.
Author: James Whitehead
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0198733704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Madness and the Romantic Poet examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the nineteenth century. The book offers a new and much more complete history of its development than has previously been attempted, alongside important associated ideas about individual genius, creativity, the emotions, rationality, and the mind in extreme states or disorder - ideas that have been pervasive in modern popular culture. More specifically, the book tells the story of the initial growth and wider dissemination of the idea of the 'Romantic mad poet' in the nineteenth century, how (and why) this idea became so popular, and how it interacted with the very different fortunes in reception and reputation of Romantic poets, their poetry, and attacks on or defences of Romanticism as a cultural trend generally - again leaving a popular legacy that endured into the twentieth century. Material covered includes nineteenth-century journalism, early literary criticism, biography, medical and psychiatric literature, and poetry. A wide range of scientific (and pseudoscientific) thinkers are discussed alongside major Romantic authors, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Hazlitt, Lamb, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Keats, Byron, and John Clare. Using this array of sources and figures, the book asks: was the Romantic mad genius just a sentimental stereotype or a romantic myth? Or does its long popularity tell us something serious about Romanticism and the role it has played, or has been given, in modern culture?
Author: Neil Ramsey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1351885677
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examining the memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Neil Ramsey explores the effect of these as cultural forms mediating warfare to the reading public during and immediately after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Forming a distinct and commercially successful genre that in turn inspired the military and nautical novels that flourished in the 1830s, military memoirs profoundly shaped nineteenth-century British culture's understanding of war as Romantic adventure, establishing images of the nation's middle-class soldier heroes that would be of enduring significance through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As Ramsey shows, the military memoir achieved widespread acclaim and commercial success among the reading public of the late Romantic era. Ramsey assesses their influence in relation to Romantic culture's wider understanding of war writing, autobiography, and authorship and to the shifting relationships between the individual, the soldier, and the nation. The memoirs, Ramsey argues, participated in a sentimental response to the period's wars by transforming earlier, impersonal traditions of military memoirs into stories of the soldier's personal suffering. While the focus on suffering established in part a lasting strand of anti-war writing in memoirs by private soldiers, such stories also helped to foster a sympathetic bond between the soldier and the civilian that played an important role in developing ideas of a national war and functioned as a central component in a national commemoration of war.
Author: Jon Mee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-09-02
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 052185914X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A lively and accessible introduction for general readers, students, teachers, and academics.
Author: James Rovira
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-03-29
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 3319726889
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms explores the relationships among the musical genres of post-punk, goth, and metal and American and European Romanticisms traditionally understood. It argues that these contemporary forms of music are not only influenced by but are an expression of Romanticism continuous with their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century influences. Figures such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Friedrich, Schlegel, and Hoffman are brought alongside the music and visual aesthetics of the Rolling Stones, the New Romantics, the Pretenders, Joy Division, Nick Cave, Tom Verlaine, emo, Eminem, My Dying Bride, and Norwegian black metal to explore the ways that Romanticism continues into the present in all of its varying forms and expressions.
