Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-521-84675-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 62, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

The Romantic age was one of anger and its consequences: revolution and reaction, terror and war. Andrew M. Stauffer explores the changing place of anger in the literature and culture of the period, as English men and women rethought their relationship to the aggressive passions in the wake of the French Revolution. Drawing on diverse fields and discourses such as aesthetics, politics, medicine and the law and tracing the classical legacy the Romantics inherited, Stauffer charts the period's struggle to define the relationship of anger to justice and the creative self. In their poetry and prose, Romantic authors including Blake, Coleridge, Godwin, Shelley and Byron negotiate the meanings of indignation and rage amidst a clamourous debate over the place of anger in art and in civil society. This innovative book has much to contribute to the understanding of Romantic literature and the cultural history of the emotions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stauffer, Andrew M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: fits of rage; 1. Towards Romantic anger; 2. Burke, Coleridge and the rage for indignation; 3. Inflammatory reactions; 4. Provocation and the plot of anger; 5. Shelley and the masks of anger; 6. Byron's curse; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Stauffer, Andrew M.
Andrew M. Stauffer is an Assistant Professor of English at Boston University.