The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 5, Romanticism

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George Alexander Kennedy, Marshall Brown
Cambridge University Press, 1989 - 506 páginas
This latest volume in the celebrated Cambridge History of Literary Criticism addresses literary criticism of the Romantic period, chiefly in Europe. Its seventeen chapters are by internationally-respected academics and explore a range of key topics and themes. The book is designed to help readers locate essential information and to develop approaches and viewpoints for a deeper understanding of issues discussed by Romantic critics or those that were fundamental to their works. Primary and secondary bibliographies provide a guide for further research.
 

Contenido

Classical standards in the period
7
Innovation and modernity
29
The French Revolution
49
Transcendental philosophy and Romantic criticism
72
Nature
92
Scientific models
115
Religion and literature
138
Language theory and the art of understanding
162
Theories of genre
226
Theory of the novel
250
The impact of Shakespeare
272
The vocation of criticism and the crisis of the republic
296
Women gender and literary criticism
321
Literary history and historicism
338
Literature and the other arts
362
Bibliography
387

The transformation of rhetoric
185
Romantic irony
203

Términos y frases comunes

Acerca del autor (1989)

Marshall Brown in Professor of English at the University of Washington.

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