Romantic Affinities - Portraits From an Age 1780-1830

Informationen zum Autor Rupert Christiansen was educated at Cambridge and Columbia universities. He is the author of Arthur Clough! A Pocket Guide to Opera! Paris Babylon and! most recently ! The Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain . He is opera critic and art columnist for the Daily Telegraph ! and a member of the editorial board of Opera. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature! he lives in London. The winner of a 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, Romantic Affinities is a kaleidoscopic series of portraits from an era of tumultuous change in Europe as it was experienced and communicated by the writers of the age. Zusammenfassung Romantic Affinities presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of Europe in an era of tumultuous change, as experienced and communicated by the writers of the age. Set against the hopes and dreams inspired by the French Revolution, the disillusion caused by its failure and the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars that followed, Rupert Christiansen draws the threads into an exciting narrative. Ranging over politics, art, music and using the voices of celebrated Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Goethe and Pushkin, as well as less familiar Chenier, Hölderlin, Hoffman and de Staël, he vividly recreates one of the most fascinating and complex periods of modern history and offers fresh perspecitves on its magnificent literature and culture.

Product details

• Authors: Rupert Christiansen
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2004
• EAN: 9781844134212
• ISBN: 978-1-84413-421-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 233 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, c 1800 to c 1900, Romanticism, Art & design styles: Romanticism, c 1789 to c 1799 (French Revolutionary period), Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, C 1700 To C 1800, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799, French Revolution