John Beer

Romanticism, Revolution and Language

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A examination of the continuities between Romantic and Victorian authors from a highly respected senior scholar of Romanticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780521897556
• ISBN-10: 0521897556
• Artikelnr.: 26527008

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'Democracy' in Somerset and beyond
2. Politics, sensibility and the adequacy of language
3. The heart of Lyrical Ballads
4. The Prelude: a poem in process
5. Words or images? Blake's representation of history
6. Blake, Coleridge, and 'The Riddle of the World'
7. Challenges from the non-verbal and return to the word
8. The nature of Hazlitt's taste
9. Jane Austen's progress
10. Languages of memory and passion: Tennyson, Gaskell and the Brontës
11. George Eliot and the future of language
Index.