A Handbook to English Romanticism - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0333607066 ISBN 13: 9780333607060

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 1994

Riassunto

This handbook contains information about major and minor writers, and about the historical and ideological context of the period. It allows the reader to see when works were published, what ideas went into them, and what historical events shaped them. It is the work of a team of specialists from Britain and France which will be of great value to all students of the period.

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Contenuti:

Preface - Notes on Contributors - The Abolition of the Slave Trade - Akenside, Mark (1721-1770) - The American Revolution - The Anti-Jacobin - Association - Austen, Jane (1775-1818) - Beattie, James (1735-1803) - Blake, William (1557-1827) - Bonaparte, Napoleon (1769-1821) - Burke, Edmund (1729-1797) - Burns, Robert (1759-1796) - Byron (George Gordon, sixth Lord) (1788-1824) - Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844) - Cartoons - Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770) - Clare, John (1793-1864) - Cobbett, William (1763-1864) - Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) - Constable, John (1776-1837) - Cowper, William (1731-1800) - Crabbe, George (1754-1832) - Drama - Dreams - The Fantastic - The French Revolution - German Literature - Godwin, William (1756-1836) - Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774) - The Gothic Novel - Gray, Thomas (1716-71) - Hogg, James (1770-1835) - Hunt, James H. Leigh (1784-1859) - Imagination - The Industrial Revolution - The Jacobin Novel - Keats, John (1795-1821) - Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) - Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864) - Landscape - Macpherson, James (1736-1796) The Marvellous and Occult - Maturin, Charles Robert (1780-1824) - Mediaevalism - Metre and Form - Moore, Thomas (1779-1852) - Nature - Nelson, Horatio (1758-1805) - Negative Capability - Orientalism - Paine, Thomas (1737-1809) - Painting - Palmer, Samuel (1805-1881) - Pantheism - Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866) - Periodicals - Peterloo - The Picturesque - Political Thought - Religious Thought: Wesley, Swedenborg - Robespierre, Maximilies (1759-1794) - Rogers, Samuel (1763-1855) - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778) - Scott, Walter (1771-1832) - The Self - Sensibility - Shelley, Mary (1797-1851) - Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) - Smart, Christopher (1774-1771) - Southey, Robert (1774-1843) - The Sublime; - Turner, Joseph William Mallord (1775-1851) - Thomson, James (1700-1748) - Warton, Joseph (1722-1800) - Waterloo - Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of (1769-1852) - Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797) - Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771-1855) - Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) - Young, Edward (1683-1755)

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0333607066
• ISBN 13: 9780333607060
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 348
• Redattore: Raimond Jean