30 Great Myths about the Romantics

30 Great Myths about the Romantics
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9781118843178
ISBN-13 : 1118843177
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Book Synopsis 30 Great Myths about the Romantics by : Duncan Wu

Download or read book 30 Great Myths about the Romantics written by Duncan Wu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brimming with the fascinating eccentricities of a complex andconfusing movement whose influences continue to resonate deeply,30 Great Myths About the Romantics adds great clarity towhat we know – or think we know – about one ofthe most important periods in literary history. Explores the various misconceptions commonly associated withRomanticism, offering provocative insights that correct and clarifyseveral of the commonly-held myths about the key figures of thisera Corrects some of the biases and beliefs about the Romanticsthat have crept into the 21st-century zeitgeist – for examplethat they were a bunch of drug-addled atheists who believed in freelove; that Blake was a madman; and that Wordsworth slept with hissister Celebrates several of the mythic objects, characters, and ideasthat have passed down from the Romantics into contemporary culture– from Blake’s Jerusalem and Keats’sOde on a Grecian Urn to the literary genre of thevampire Engagingly written to provide readers with a fun yet scholarlyintroduction to Romanticism and key writers of the period, applyingthe most up-to-date scholarship to the series of myths thatcontinue to shape our appreciation of their work


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