Jeffrey N. Cox

Romanticism in the Shadow of War

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Produktbeschreibung

A fresh take on Romantic writers including Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats, within the culture of the Napoleonic War years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9781107071940
• ISBN-10: 1107071941
• Artikelnr.: 41084608

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey N. Cox is Professor of English, of Comparative Literature, and of Humanities at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he is also the Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs. He is the author of Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Shelley, Keats, Hunt, and their Circle (Cambridge, 1998) and In the Shadows of Romance: Romantic Tragic Drama in Germany, England, and France (1987).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: border raids as cultural practice
1. Holcroft's Parisian expedition
2. After war: Manfred and the melodrama
3. Barbauld's sallies
4. Love beyond faith and hope: Percy and Mary Shelley on history and prophecy
5. The import of Hunt's 'Italianism'
6. Cockneys in Tuscany
Select bibliography.