The Wildness Pleases (Routledge Revivals): The Origins of Romanticism - Hardcover

Thacker, Christopher

 
9781138647954: The Wildness Pleases (Routledge Revivals): The Origins of Romanticism
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ISBN 10: 1138647950 ISBN 13: 9781138647954
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

First published in 1983. This book charts the growth of Romanticism from the initial reactions to the authoritarian classicism of Louis XIV, through the ‘codification’ of the Sublime by Burke in the 1750s, to the fascination with mystery, fear and violence which dominated the writing of the late eighteenth century. The origins of the movement are found in the writings of Rousseau and admiration for the ‘noble savage’, the development of the landscape garden, discoveries in the South Seas, new approaches to ‘primitive’ poetry and enthusiasm for gothic art and literature. These attitudes are contrasted with the more classical views of writers like Samuel Johnson.

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Christopher Thacker

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138647950
ISBN 13 
9781138647954
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
316

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