The Taming of Romanticism: European Literature and the Age of Biedermeier: 37 - Rilegato

Nemoianu, Virgil

 
9780674418264: The Taming of Romanticism: European Literature and the Age of Biedermeier: 37

Sinossi

Looking at a broad spectrum of writers--English, French, German, Italian, Russian and other East Europeans--Virgil Nemoianu offers here a coherent characterization of the period 1815-1848. This he calls the era of the domestication of romanticism.

The explosive, visionary core of romanticism is seen to give way--after the defeat of Napoleon--to an expanded and softer version reflecting middle-class values. This later form of romanticism is characterized by moralizing efforts to reform society, a sentimental yearning for the tranquility of home and hearth, and persistent faith in the individual, alongside a new skepticism, shattered ideals, and consequent irony. Expanding the application of the term Biedermeier, which has been useful in describing this period in German literature, Nemoianu provides a new framework for understanding these years in a wider European context.

Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780674868021: Taming of Romanticism: European Literature and the Age of Biedermeier

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0674868021 ISBN 13:  9780674868021
Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 1984
Rilegato