Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and Its Background, 1760-1830 (Opus Books) - Couverture souple

Butler, Marilyn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0192891324 ISBN 13 : 9780192891327

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1985

Synopsis

This study of the Romantics-Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, Scott, Bryon, Shelley, and Keats-places these richly varied writers into their proper historical setting. Butler relates the French and American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the expansion of agriculture, trade, and industry, and growing economic and social pressures to the cultural forces which shaped their work. She reveals the common factors which engaged the separate efforts of so many individual creative minds, and the fierce personal and artistic politics of an age in the midst of profound change. Demonstrating that the literature produced during this dynamic, restless time is not as homogenous as is generally assumed, Butler illuminates the ways in which these various experimental works reflected radically new sensibilities and aspirations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Marilyn Butler is King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University. She is also the author of Jane Austen and the War of Ideas (Clarendon Press, 1975), Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography (Clarendon Press, 1972), Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy (ed.) (CUP, 1984), and a biography of Peacock.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0192891324
• ISBN 13: 9780192891327
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible