Buch, Englisch, Band 37, 311 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 633 g
European Literature and the Age of Biedermeier
Buch, Englisch, Band 37, 311 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 633 g
Reihe: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature
ISBN: 978-0-674-41826-4
Verlag: Harvard University Press
Looking at a broad spectrum of writers--English, French, German, Italian, Russian and other East Europeans--Virgil Nemoianu offers here a coherent characterization of the period 1815-1848. This he calls the era of the domestication of romanticism. The explosive, visionary core of romanticism is seen to give way--after the defeat of Napoleon--to an expanded and softer version reflecting middle-class values. This later form of romanticism is characterized by moralizing efforts to reform society, a sentimental yearning for the tranquility of home and hearth, and persistent faith in the individual, alongside a new skepticism, shattered ideals, and consequent irony. Expanding the application of the term Biedermeier, which has been useful in describing this period in German literature, Nemoianu provides a new framework for understanding these years in a wider European context.
