The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1474429645 ISBN 13 : 9781474429641

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2017

Synopsis

The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age reveals the extent to which writers now called romantic venerate and use classical texts to transform lyric and narrative poetry, the novel, mythology, politics, and issues of race and slavery, as well as to provide models for their own literary careers and personal lives. On both sides of the Atlantic the classics including the surprising influence of Hebrew, regarded as a classical language play a major role in what becomes labeled romanticism only later in the nineteenth century. The relation between classic and romantic is not one of opposition but subtle interpenetration and mutual transformation. While romantic writers regard what they are doing as new, this attitude in no way prompts them to abjure valuable lessons of genre, expression, and judgment flowing from the classical authors they love. This volume disturbs categories that have become too settled.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

K. P. Van Anglen is Senior Lecturer on English, retired, at Boston University. James Engell is Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474429645
• ISBN 13: 9781474429641
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Éditeur: Van Anglen K. P., Engell James
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