Romanticism (The New Critical Idiom) [Paperback]

Aidan Day (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415083788 | ISBN-13: 978-0415083782 | Publication Date: December 15, 1995

Aidan Day considers the history and usage of the term Romanticism, and the changing views and debates which surround it. He traces its history through nineteenth and twentieth-century readings, incorporating contemporary debates such as feminism, post-structuralism and new historicism. Day places the traditional canon in the wider context of their contemporary political and philosophical thinkers. A range of writers, both canonical and non-canonical, are included in his survey, including:
* William Blake
* William Wordsworth
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge
* John Keats
* Shelley
* Edmund Blake
* Thomas Paine
* Mary Wollstonecraft
* Jane Austen
* Charlotte Smith
* Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Romanticism takes a clear, wide-ranging view of the subject and is essential reading for students new to the subject.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Provides a mass of information. - Notes and Queries

A clear and concise introduction to the major themes and figures of the Romantic period. - Annotated Bibliography of English Studies

To sum up, this book presents a complex (in its truest etymological sense) argument, judiciously and convincingly pursuing different lines of tradition. - Buchbesprechungen --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Aidan Day is Reader in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is co-editor, with Christopher Ricks, of The Tennyson Archive, and editor of Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems and Robert Browning: Selected Poetry and Prose.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Routledge (December 15, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415083788
• ISBN-13: 978-0415083782
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #172,222 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #70 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Movements & Periods

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