Burwick Romanticism

Keywords
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-89310-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Keywords in Literature and Culture (KILC)

Compiles 70 of the key terms most frequently used or discussedby authors of the Romantic period - and most oftendeliberated by critics and literary historians of the era.
* Offers an indispensable resource for understanding the ideasand differing interpretations that shaped the Romantic period
* Includes keywords spanning Abolition and Allegory, throughMadness and Monsters, to Vision and Vampires
* Features in-depth descriptions of each entry's directmeaning and connotations in relation to its usage and thought inliterary culture
* Provides deep insights into the political, social, and culturalclimate of one of the most expressive periods of Western literaryhistory
* Draws on the author's extensive experience of teaching,lecturing, and writing on Romantic literature

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burwick, Frederick

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
A
Abolition
Allegory
Antiquarianism
Art for Art's Sake
Associationism
Autobiography
B
Bardolatry
Bluestockings
C
Childhood
Colonialism
Crime
D
Dandyism
Dialectics
Dreams
E
Ekphrasis
Eroticism
F
Folklore
G
Genius
Gothic
Grotesque
Gusto
H
Harlequinade
Hellenism
Higher Criticism
Homosexuality
I
Illusion
Imagination
Imitation
Incest
Inspiration
M
Madness
Medievalism
Melancholy
Melodrama
Mesmerism
Metaliterature
Metonomy
Monsters
Mythopoeia
N
Nature
Necessitarianism
Negative Capability
O
Organicism
Orientalism
P
Pantheism
Parody
Passion
Pathetic Fallacy
Picturesque
Poetic Form
Prometheus
R
Reflection
Reform
Religion
Revolution
Rights
Romanticism
Romantic Irony
Ruins
S
Satire
Science
Sensibility
Solitude
Sublime
Supernaturalism
Symbol
Sympathy
T
Transcendentalism
Translation
Travel
V
Vampire Aesthetics
Vision
W
Women's Rights
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Frederick Burwick is Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. The author or editor of 30 books and more than 140 scholarly articles, Burwick is also co-editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of Romanticism (2012). Other recent publications include Romantic Drama: Acting and Reacting (2009) and Playing to the Crowd, London Popular Theatre, 1780-1830 (2011).