Home >

Romanticism and the Painful Pleasures of Modern Life (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Romanticism and the Painful Pleasures of Modern Life (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) by Andrea K. Henderson 0521175445 9780521175449
Stock Image - Actual Cover May Vary
 
Our Price: $48.99

Quantity:39

 
ISBN: 0521175445


Condition: 		New [Add $99.00]
Like-New [Add $0.60]
Very-Good [Add $0.40]
Good [Add $0.20]
Acceptable

Quantity:  
Description
 
In their pursuit of emotional extremes, writers of the Romantic period were fascinated by experiences of pain and misery, and explored the ability to derive pleasure, and produce creative energy, out of masochism and submission. These interests were closely connected to the failure of the industrial and democratic revolutions to fulfil their promise of increased economic and political power for everyone. Writers as different as Frances Burney, William Hazlitt, John Keats, and Lord Byron both challenged and came to terms with the injustices of modern life through their representations of submission. In this book, Andrea K. Henderson teases out these configurations and analyses the many ways ideas of mastery and subjection shaped Romantic artistic forms, from literature and art to architecture and garden design. This provocative and ambitious study ranges widely through early nineteenth-century culture to reveal the underlying power relations that shaped Romanticism.

Romanticism and the Painful Pleasures of Modern Life (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)

Author: Andrea K. Henderson

Edition: Reissue

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 314

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 2011-03-03


Share your shopping experience. Write a review here »