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PREFACE Russian literature between 1750 and the romantic age presents a confusing picture. ... Period terms have been used in great variety, yet without general agreement as to the extent, or even the nature of the trends described.
Given the morass of difficulties associated with the term 'Romantic', we were tempted to opt for the alternative period label often favoured by historians—'the age of Revolution'. Usually treated as synonymous with the rise of democracy ...
The essays of this study are devoted to two major literary trends of the 18th and early 19th century, -sentimentalism and preromanticism.
The main characteristics of Romanticism can be identified as: i) The desire to return to nature and instill trust in human goodness. ii) Rediscovering the ... The poems and prose highlighted an inclination toward the medieval age.
25). There were also many “steps of life” illustrations that depicted women alone or men alone, particularly from the early to mid nineteenth century forward. An American Currier and Ives print, “The Life and Age of Woman” (1850), ...
Another aim of An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age, to highlight 'the fiery debates, crushing commercial pressures, and chance events of a historical period that was felt to be seething with conflict', further indicated just how ...
There is also the implication that if a man is attracted to a woman who embodies the social and linguistic attributes normally apportioned to men, then perhaps he may prefer to romance a man instead. Matilda's queerness precipitates ...
INTRODUCTION In this anthology we present the reader with a selection of texts of English discursive prose of the period from the late 1780's to the early 1830's , the Romantic age . We present what we consider to be important texts ...
Hulme, P. and T. Youngs (eds) The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (Cambridge, 2002). (Contains much of relevance to the Romantic period.) Jarvis, R. Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel (Basingstoke, 1997).
Just as European borders in the Romantic Age were fluid and permeable , cultural identity fostered through interaction was similarly elastic . To avoid the isolation of narrowly determined geographic and lingusitic identity , writers ...
