Romantic affinities: Portraits from an age, 1780-1830 - Hardcover

Christiansen, Rupert

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9780370311173: Romantic affinities: Portraits from an age, 1780-1830

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ISBN 10: 0370311175 ISBN 13: 9780370311173

Publisher: Bodley Head, 1988

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This book offers a series of kaleidoscopic portraits from an era of change in Europe as it was experienced and communicated by the writers of the age. These include not only the more familiar "Romantic" figures, such as Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Goethe, but also Holderlin, Hoffman, Pushkin, Chenier, Madame de Stael and many others. It is set against the background of the initial liberal dawning that the French Revolution seemed to herald, the disillusion that set in after its descent into terror and the decades of warfare that followed. The author has drawn on recent scholarship ranging over many related aspects of contemporary politics and culture as he presents fresh perspectives on poetry and prose long defined narrowly as Romanticism.

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The winner of a 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, this is a most readable and reliable guide to the culture and society of the Romantic period in Europe as it was experienced and communicated by writers of the age.

About the Author:

Rupert Christiansen was educated at Cambridge and Columbia universities. He is the author of Arthur Clough, A Pocket Guide to Opera, Paris Babylon and, most recently, The Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain. He is opera critic and art columnist for the Daily Telegraph, and a member of the editorial board of Opera. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.

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