Romantic Mythologies

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-19007-8
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 770 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Romanticism

First published in 1967. These essays illustrate the movement of ideas in the literary and artistic history of the later part of the nineteenth century. The subjects dealt with are diverse though interrelated. All the contributors exemplify the changing thought of the period from Romanticism, through Victorianism to Symbolism. This title will be of interest to students of art history and literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fletcher, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword; 1. The Image of the Androgyne in the Nineteenth Century 2. The Fortunate Fall and Hawthorne’s ‘The Marble Faun’ 3. The Conserving Myth of William Barnes 4. Bedford Park: Aesthete’s Elysium? 5. Pierrot and Fin de Siécle 6. Art as Second Nature 7. ‘Aubrey Beardsley, Man of Letters’ 8. Wagner and Forster: ‘Parsifal’ and ‘A Room with a View’

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