Tag: Romanticism

Free Download James Rovira, "Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 "
English | ISBN: 1498553834 | 2018 | 198 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 1285 KB
Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on what it has become in the present. This anthology allows Byron and Wollstonecraft to speak back to contemporary theories of Romanticism through Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. Relying on Löwy and Sayre’s Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity, it explores how hostility, loss, and longing for unity are particularly appropriate terms for classic rock as well as the origins of these emotions. In essays ranging from Bob Dylan to Blackberry Smoke, this work examines how rock and roll expands, interprets, restates, interrogates, and conflicts with literary Romanticism, all the while understanding that as a term "rock and roll" in reference to popular music from the late 1940s through the early 2000s is every bit as contradictory and difficult to define as the word Romanticism itself.

Free Download The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism by Mark Canuel
English | October 3, 2022 | ISBN: 0192895303 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 1.9 MB
What did Romantic writers mean when they wrote about "progress" and "perfection"? This book shows how Romantic writers inventively responded to familiar ideas about political progress which they inherited from the eighteenth century. Whereas earlier writers such as Voltaire and John Millar likened improvements in political institutions to the progress of the sciences or refinement of manners, the novelists, poets, and political theorists examined in this book reimagined politically progressive thinking in multiple genres. While embracing a commitment to optimistic improvement-increasing freedom, equality, and protection from injury-they also cultivated increasingly visible and volatile energies of religious and political dissent. Earlier narratives of progress tended not only to edit and fictionalize history but also to agglomerate different modes of knowledge and practice in their quest to describe and prescribe uniform cultural improvement. But romantic writers seize on internal division and take it less as an occasion for anxiety, exclusion, or erasure, and more as an impetus to rethink the groundwork of progress itself.

Free Download Romanticism, Reaction and Revolution: British Views on Spain, 1814-1823 (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) edited by Bernard Beatty, Alicia Laspra Rodríguez
English | March 29, 2019 | ISBN: 3034322496 | True EPUB/PDF | 352 pages | 15.4/24.2 MB
When the Peninsular War ended in 1814, the prolonged struggle had all but exhausted both British government finances and the British public’s enthusiasm for war. The authoritarian rule of Ferdinand VII aroused long-standing British suspicions of Spanish ways, which emerged in British literary works that depicted a retrograde, fanatical Spain. The tumultuous years following Ferdinand’s reign also led to divisions among the European powers, some favouring the restoration of Ferdinand, with the British government and liberal forces vehemently opposed.

Free Download Christopher R. Clason, "Memory in German Romanticism "
English | ISBN: 1032319844 | 2023 | 264 pages | EPUB | 3 MB

Free Download Martina Möller, "Rubble, Ruins and Romanticism: Visual Style, Narration and Identity in German Post-War Cinema (Film Studies)"
English | 2013 | pages: 321 | ISBN: 3837621839 | PDF | 1,8 mb
Traditional criticism on German post-war cinema tends to define rubble films as simplistic texts of low artistic quality which serve to reaffirm the spectator’s image of him or herself as a good German during bad times. Yet this study asserts that some rubble films are actually informed by a type of visual and narrative Romantic discourse which aims at provoking a critical discussion on German national identity and its reconstruction in the aftermath of the Third Reich. Considering the lack of previous analyses with regard to the key aspects of Romantic visual style, narration and literary motifs in rubble films, this study points to a major gap in research.

Free Download Sound and Sense in British Romanticism
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009277847 | 302 Pages | PDF (True) | 11 MB
A radical re-imagining of the relationship between sound and sense took place in Britain in the decades around 1800. This new approach reconfigured sound as central to understandings of space and temporality, from the diurnal rhythms of everyday life in the modern city to the ‘deep time’ of the natural world. At the same time, sound emerged as a frequently disruptive phenomenon, a philosophical and political problem, and a force with the power to overwhelm listeners. This is the first book devoted to the topic and brings together scholars from literary studies, musicology, history and philosophy through the interdisciplinary frameworks of sound studies and the history of the senses. The chapters pursue a wide range of subjects, from ‘national airs’ to the London stage, and from experiments in sound to new musical and scientific instruments. Collectively, they demonstrate how a focus on sound can enrich our understanding of Romantic-era culture.

Free Download Christopher R. Clason, "Memory in German Romanticism "
English | ISBN: 1032319844 | 2023 | 264 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Memory in German Romanticism treats memory as a core element in the production and reception of German art and literature of the Romantic era. The contributors explore the artistic expression of memory under the categories of imagination, image, and reception. Romantic literary aesthetics raises the subjective imagination to a level of primary importance for the creation of art. It goes beyond challenging reason and objectivity, two leading intellectual faculties of eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and instead elevates subjective invention to form and sustain memory and imagination. Indeed, memory and imagination, both cognitive functions, seek to assemble the elements of one’s own experience, either directed toward the past (memory) or toward the future (imagination), coherently into a narrative. And like memories, images hold the potential to elicit charged emotional responses; those responses live on through time, becoming part of the spatial and temporal reception of the artist and their work. While imagination generates and images trigger and capture memories, reception creates a temporal-spatial context for art, organizing it and rendering it "memorable," both for good and for bad. Thus, through the categories of imagination, image, and reception, this volume explores the phenomenon of German Romantic memory from different perspectives and in new contexts.

Free Download Zachary Sng, "Middling Romanticism: Reading in the Gaps, from Kant to Ashbery "
English | ISBN: 0823288412 | 2020 | 224 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Romanticism is often understood as an age of extremes, yet it also marks the birth of the modern medium in all senses of the word. Engaging with key texts of the romantic period, the book outlines a wide-reaching project to re-imagine the middle as a constitutive principle. Sng argues that Romanticism dislodges such terms as medium, moderation, and mediation from serving as mere self-evident tools that conduct from one pole to another. Instead, they offer a dwelling in and with the middle: an attention to intervals, interstices, and gaps that make these terms central to modern understandings of relation.

Free Download Richard C. Sha, "Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited "
English | ISBN: 1474485103 | 2022 | 416 pages | PDF | 6 MB
With explosive interest in Romantic science and theories of mind and a renewed sense of the period’s porousness to the world, along with new developments in cognitive theory and research, Romantic studies scholars have been called to revisit and re-map the terrain laid out in the highly influential 1970 volume Romanticism and Consciousness. Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited brings this shift in approach to Romantic "consciousness"―no longer the possession of a sole self but transactional, social, and entangled with the outside world―up to date.

Free Download Zoe Beenstock, "The Politics of Romanticism: The Social Contract and Literature "
English | ISBN: 1474401031 | 2016 | 256 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Redefines Romantic sociability through a reading of social contract theory