Romanticism (The New Critical Idiom)

by Aidan Day (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $25.44

  Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and American literary history. This clear and engaging guide introduces the history, major writers and critical issues of this crucial era. This fully updated second edition includes:

  • Discussion of a broad range of writers including William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, H.D. Thoreau, Frederick Douglas
  • A new chapter on American Romanticism
  • Discussion of the romantic sublime or romantic imagination
  • An engagement with critical debates such as postcolonialism, gender studies and ecocriticism.

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.43

  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.