Romanticism and the Painful Pleasures of Modern Life
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2008
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-88402-0 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-88402-0 (ISBN)
Writers of the Romantic period were fascinated by experiences of pain and misery, and explored the ability to derive pleasure, and produce creative energy, out of masochism and submission. This provocative and ambitious study ranges widely through early nineteenth-century culture to reveal the underlying power relations that shaped Romanticism.
In their pursuit of emotional extremes, writers of the Romantic period were fascinated by experiences of pain and misery, and explored the ability to derive pleasure, and produce creative energy, out of masochism and submission. These interests were closely connected to the failure of the industrial and democratic revolutions to fulfil their promise of increased economic and political power for everyone. Writers as different as Frances Burney, William Hazlitt, John Keats, and Lord Byron both challenged and came to terms with the injustices of modern life through their representations of submission. In this book, Andrea K. Henderson teases out these configurations and analyses the many ways ideas of mastery and subjection shaped Romantic artistic forms, from literature and art to architecture and garden design. This provocative and ambitious study ranges widely through early nineteenth-century culture to reveal the underlying power relations that shaped Romanticism.
In their pursuit of emotional extremes, writers of the Romantic period were fascinated by experiences of pain and misery, and explored the ability to derive pleasure, and produce creative energy, out of masochism and submission. These interests were closely connected to the failure of the industrial and democratic revolutions to fulfil their promise of increased economic and political power for everyone. Writers as different as Frances Burney, William Hazlitt, John Keats, and Lord Byron both challenged and came to terms with the injustices of modern life through their representations of submission. In this book, Andrea K. Henderson teases out these configurations and analyses the many ways ideas of mastery and subjection shaped Romantic artistic forms, from literature and art to architecture and garden design. This provocative and ambitious study ranges widely through early nineteenth-century culture to reveal the underlying power relations that shaped Romanticism.
Andrea K. Henderson is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.
Introduction: submitting to liberty; 1. Finance and flagellation; 2. From Sadism to masochism in the novels of Frances Burney; 3. The Aesthetics of passion: Joanna Baillie's defense of the picturesque in an age of sublimity; 4. Practicing politics in the comfort of home; 5. Mastery and melancholy in suburbia; Conclusion: languishing femmes fatales; Bibliography.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.3.2008 |
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Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Studies in Romanticism |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 590 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-521-88402-0 / 0521884020 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-88402-0 / 9780521884020 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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