Romance and Revolution - Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

Klappentext Relates the revival of literary romance to the French Revolution's imaginative impact on English Romanticism. Zusammenfassung The revival of romance as a literary form and the imaginative impact of the French Revolution are acknowledged influences on English Romanticism! but their relationship has rarely been addressed. Drawing on an extensive range of textual and visual sources! David Duff traces this combination in its literary and political manifestations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The French Revolution and the politics of romance; 2. Romance and revolution in Queen Mab; 3. Sir Guyon de Shelley and friends: new light on the chivalric revival; 4. The right road to paradise: Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: David Duff
• Assisted by: Marilyn Butler (Editor), James Chandler (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.10.2005
• EAN: 9780521021104
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02110-4
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romantici
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies