Romanticism Republicanism And The Swiss Myth

Author : Patrick Vincent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009210270

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Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth by Patrick Vincent Pdf

The first detailed treatment of Switzerland in British literature and culture from Joseph Addison to John Ruskin, this book analyzes the aesthetic and political uses of what is commonly called the 'Swiss myth' in the parallel development of Romanticism and liberalism. The myth merged the country's legends going back to the Middle Ages with the Enlightenment image of a happy, free nation of alpine shepherds. Its unique combination of conservative, progressive, and radical associations enabled writers before the French Revolution to call for democratic reforms, whereas those coming after could refigure it as a conservative alternative to French liberté. Integrating intellectual history with literary studies, and addressing a wide range of Romantic-period texts and authors, among them Byron, the Shelleys, Hemans, Scott, Coleridge, and, above all, Wordsworth, the book argues that the myth contributed to the liberal idea of the people as a sublime yet sleeping sovereign.

Author : Patrick H. Vincent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : English literature
ISBN : 1009210300

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Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth by Patrick H. Vincent Pdf

"The first detailed treatment of Switzerland in British literature and culture from Joseph Addison to John Ruskin, this book analyzes the aesthetic and political uses of what is commonly called the 'Swiss myth' in the parallel development of Romanticism and liberalism. The myth merged the country's legends going back to the Middle Ages with the Enlightenment image of a happy, free nation of alpine shepherds. Its unique combination of conservative, progressive, and radical associations enabled writers before the French Revolution to call for democratic reforms, whereas those coming after could refigure it as a conservative alternative to French liberté. Integrating intellectual history with literary studies, and addressing a wide range of Romantic-period texts and authors, among them Byron, the Shelleys, Hemans, Scott, Coleridge, and, above all, Wordsworth, the book argues that the myth contributed to the liberal idea of the people as a sublime yet sleeping sovereign"--

Author : Olivia Ferguson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009274265

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Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel by Olivia Ferguson Pdf

A counter-intuitive history of literary caricature, exploring how caricature helped make the realist novel in the Romantic period.

Author : Cian Duffy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316515914

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The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime by Cian Duffy Pdf

This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and genres of cultural productivity in which the sublime played a substantial role during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With impressive international scope, this Companion considers the Romantic sublime in both European and American contexts and features essays by leading scholars from a range of national backgrounds and subject specialisms, including state-of-the-art perspectives in digital and environmental humanities. An accessible, wide-ranging, and thorough introduction, aimed at researchers, students, and general readers alike, and including extensive suggestions for further reading, The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime is the go-to book on the subject.

Author : Matthew Leporati
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009285179

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Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire by Matthew Leporati Pdf

Matthew Leporati examines the explosive Romantic revival of epic alongside the contemporary revival of missionary activity. His study contributes to charged political debates around British imperialism. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Russell Goulbourne,David Higgins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474250689

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism by Russell Goulbourne,David Higgins Pdf

Bringing together leading scholars from the USA, UK and Europe, this is the first substantial study of the seminal influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on British Romanticism. Reconsidering Rousseau's connection to canonical Romantic authors such as Wordsworth, Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism also explores his impact on a wide range of literature, including anti-Jacobin fiction, educational works, familiar essays, nature writing and political discourse. Convincingly demonstrating that the relationship between Rousseau's thought and British Romanticism goes beyond mere reception or influence to encompass complex forms of connection, transmission and appropriation, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism is a vital new contribution to scholarly understanding of British Romantic literature and its transnational contexts.

Author : Patrick Vincent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108497060

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The Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature by Patrick Vincent Pdf

Examining Romanticism's pan-European circulation of people, ideas, and texts, this history re-analyses the period and Britain's place in it.

Author : Benedict Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108475433

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The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism by Benedict Taylor Pdf

A stimulating new approach to understanding the relationship between music and culture in the long nineteenth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Austria
ISBN : UOM:39015073564000

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Politics and Society in Germany, Austria and Switzerland by Anonim Pdf

Author : M. N. Roy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 8120201671

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Reason, Romanticism and Revolution by M. N. Roy Pdf

Author : Michael Löwy,Robert Sayre
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822381297

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Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity by Michael Löwy,Robert Sayre Pdf

Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the unity that underlies the extraordinary diversity of romanticism from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. After critiquing previous conceptions of romanticism and discussing its first European manifestations, Löwy and Sayre propose a typology of the sociopolitical positions held by romantic writers-from “restitutionist” to various revolutionary/utopian forms. In subsequent chapters, they give extended treatment to writers as diverse as Coleridge and Ruskin, Charles Peguy, Ernst Bloch and Christa Wolf. Among other topics, they discuss the complex relationship between Marxism and romanticism before closing with a reflection on more contemporary manifestations of romanticism (for example, surrealism, the events of May 1968, and the ecological movement) as well as its future. Students and scholars of literature, humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies will be interested in this elegant and thoroughly original book.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004470651

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Discourses of Decline by Anonim Pdf

This volume explores the relevance of decline within the republican tradition. While scholarship on republicanism thrives, the idea of decline, which has been prominent in republican theory since antiquity, has received relatively little attention. The essays in this volume take a broad cultural perspective and study a wide variety of authors and (con)texts to situate decline among the key concepts in the history of republicanism. Most contributions focus on the Dutch Republic during the Age of Enlightenment and Revolutions, the area of expertise of Wyger Velema, to whom this volume is dedicated. Other case studies include early modern Spain and Venice, the German Enlightenment, and the Weimar Republic. Contributors are: Remieg Aerts, Hans Erich Bödeker, Wiep van Bunge, Lisa Kattenberg, Wessel Krul, Matthijs Lok, Alessandro Metlica, Ida Nijenhuis, Eleá de la Porte, Jan Rotmans, Niek van Sas, Freya Sierhuis, and Lina Weber.

Author : Ronald Carter,John McRae
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English language
ISBN : 0415243173

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The Routledge History of Literature in English by Ronald Carter,John McRae Pdf

This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.

Author : Carlo Ginzburg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0231119607

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Wooden Eyes by Carlo Ginzburg Pdf

Ginzburg, "the preeminent Italian historian of his generation [who] helped create the genre of microhistory" ("New York Times"), ruminates on how perspective affects what we see and understand. 26 illustrations.

Author : James H. Billington
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780765804716

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Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington Pdf

This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries--the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris, Berlin, London, and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905, March 1917, and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power. Despite his hard realism about the adverse practical consequences of revolutionary dogma, Billington appreciates the identity of its best sponsors, people who preached social justice transcending traditional national, ethnic, and gender boundaries. When this book originally appeared The New Republic hailed it as "remarkable, learned and lively," while The New Yorker noted that Billington "pays great attention to the lives and emotions of individuals and this makes his book absorbing." It is an invaluable work of history and contribution to our understanding of political life.