Andrea K. Henderson, Henderson

Romanticism and the Painful Pleasures of Modern Life

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Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of the Romantic obsession with power, submission and masochism, through readings of Byron, Keats, Burney and others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780521175449
• ISBN-10: 0521175445
• Artikelnr.: 32466586

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: submitting to liberty
1. Finance and flagellation
2. From Sadism to masochism in the novels of Frances Burney
3. The Aesthetics of passion: Joanna Baillie's defense of the picturesque in an age of sublimity
4. Practicing politics in the comfort of home
5. Mastery and melancholy in suburbia
Conclusion: languishing femmes fatales
Bibliography.