The Romantic Movement (Routledge Library Editions: Romanticism) - Hardcover

Menhennet, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138195235 ISBN 13: 9781138195233

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

First published in 1981. This study concentrates on the exponents of the central period of German Romanticism, regarding as characteristic the mode in which the poet’s self becomes active only in response to external stimuli, most notably those of landscape.

The author traces the main strands of thought and interests that preoccupy Romantic writers; the revolutionary attitude that is yet differentiated from that of writers like Byron by the lack of emphasis on individualism, the dualism of the bourgeois world and the ‘inner self’, the interest in language as an agency for the regeneration of the German spirit, and the concentration on folk-themes and the idea of Wanderung. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

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Detailed and wide-ranging, fair-minded and not impersonal.>>>> (Times Literary Supplement)

Detailed and wide-ranging, fair-minded and not impersonal. (Times Literary Supplement)

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138195235
• ISBN 13: 9781138195233
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272