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30 Great Myths about the Romantics

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Availability:In StockContributor:Duncan WuPublish date:2015-05-06Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wiley-BlackwellISBN-13:9781118843192ISBN-10:1118843193UPC:9781118843192Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Gothic & RomanceSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC1FTBFJWK

Brimming with the fascinating eccentricities of a complex and confusing movement whose influences continue to resonate deeply, 30 Great Myths About the Romantics adds great clarity to what we know - or think we know - about one of the most important periods in literary history.

  • Explores the various misconceptions commonly associated with Romanticism, offering provocative insights that correct and clarify several of the commonly-held myths about the key figures of this era
  • Corrects some of the biases and beliefs about the Romantics that have crept into the 21st-century zeitgeist - for example that they were a bunch of drug-addled atheists who believed in free love; that Blake was a madman; and that Wordsworth slept with his sister
  • Celebrates several of the mythic objects, characters, and ideas that have passed down from the Romantics into contemporary culture - from Blake's Jerusalem and Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn to the literary genre of the vampire
  • Engagingly written to provide readers with a fun yet scholarly introduction to Romanticism and key writers of the period, applying the most up-to-date scholarship to the series of myths that continue to shape our appreciation of their work
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wiley-BlackwellISBN-13:9781118843192ISBN-10:1118843193UPC:9781118843192Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Gothic & RomanceSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC1FTBFJWK

Duncan Wu is Professor of English at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He is the editor of Romanticism: An Anthology, 4th edition (WileyBlackwell, 2012), and the author of books about Romanticism, Wordsworth, and Hazlitt.


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