Creating Romanticism

S. Ruston

ISBN 10: 1137264284 / ISBN 13: 9781137264282

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, GB, 2013

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This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific and medical ideas that helped shape some of the key concepts of the period, such as natural rights, the creative imagination and the sublime.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating Romanticism
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, GB
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137264284
• ISBN 13: 9781137264282
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific and medical ideas that helped shape some of the key concepts of the period, such as natural rights, the creative imagination and the sublime.

About the Author

Sharon Ruston is Chair in Romanticism at Lancaster University, UK. She has published Shelley and Vitality (2005), Romanticism: An Introduction (2007), and has edited The Influence and Anxiety of the British Romantics: Spectres of Romanticism (1999), Literature and Science (2008) and co-edited Teaching Romanticism (2010).