Romantic Writings (Approaching Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415135788 ISBN 13: 9780415135788

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

Romantic Writings is an ideal introduction to the cultural phenomenon of Romanticism - one of the most important European literary movements and the cradle of 'Modern' culture.
Here you will find an accessible introduction to the well-known male Romantic writers - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. Alongside are chapters dealing with poems by Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Ann Barbauld, Elizabeth Barrett Browning which challenge the idea that these men are the only Romantic writers. As a further counterpoint the book also includes discussion of two German Romantic short stories by Kleist and Hoffman. Throughout, close-reading of texts is matched by an insistence on reading them in their historical context.
Romantic Writings offers invaluable discussions of issues such as the notion of the Romantic artist; colonialism and the exotic; and the particular situation of women writers and readers.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Bygrave is a Lecturer in Literature at the Open University, London.

Review:

Romantic Writings is an ideal introduction to a wide range of poetry and prose from the period between about 1780 and 1830...the ideal introduction to a veritable treasury of Western literature.
–Reviewer's Bookwatch

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0415135788
• ISBN 13: 9780415135788
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Bygrave Stephen