The Emergence of RomanticismAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Wednesday 18 October 1995
Description
Although primarily known as an eminent historian of Russia, Nicholas Riasanovsky has been a longtime student of European Romanticism. In this book, Riasanovsky offers a refreshing and appealing new interpretation of Romanticism's goals and influence. He searches for the origins of the dazzling vision that made the great early Romantic poets in England and Germany--Wordsworth, Coleridge, Novalis, and Friedrich Schlegel--look at the world in a new way. He stresses that Romanticism was produced only by Western Christian civilization, with its unique view of humankind's relationship to God. The Romantic's frantic and heroic striving after unreachable goals mirrors Christian beliefs in human inability to adequately address God, speak to God, or praise God. Further, Riasanovsky argues that Romantic thought had important political implications, playing a key role in the rise of nationalism in Europe. Offering a historical examination of an area often limited to literary analysis, this book gracefully makes a larger historical statement about the nature and centrality of European Romanticism.
You may also like ...
by
22 Feb 2024
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
€222.30
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
29 Aug 2023
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions
€23.39
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
29 Aug 2023
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions
€17.54
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
03 Aug 2023
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions
€8.18
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews