Romanticism A Very Short Introduction

Romanticism  A Very Short Introduction
Author: Michael Ferber
Publsiher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2010-09-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780191614262

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What is Romanticism? In this Very Short Introduction Michael Ferber answers this by considering who the romantics were and looks at what they had in common — their ideas, beliefs, commitments, and tastes. He looks at the birth and growth of Romanticism throughout Europe and the Americas, and examines various types of Romantic literature, music, painting, religion, and philosophy. Focusing on topics, Ferber looks at the 'Sensibility' movement, which preceded Romanticism; the rising prestige of the poet; Romanticism as a religious trend; Romantic philosophy and science; Romantic responses to the French Revolution; and the condition of women. Using examples and quotations he presents a clear insight into this very diverse movement, and offers a definition as well as a discussion of the word 'Romantic' and where it came from. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Romanticism A Very Short Introduction

Romanticism  A Very Short Introduction
Author: Michael Ferber
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2010-09-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780199568918

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The only short introduction to Romanticism that incorporates not only the English but the Continental movements, and not only literature but music, art, religion, and philosophy.-publisher description.

Romanticism

Romanticism
Author: Michael Ferber
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2010
Genre: Romanticism
ISBN: 0191777544

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Michael Ferber considers Romanticism in its time of growth in Western Europe, examining various types of Romantic literature music, painting, religion and philosophy. He provides examples and quotations throughout to demonstrate the diverse nature of the momement.

English Literature A Very Short Introduction

English Literature  A Very Short Introduction
Author: Jonathan Bate
Publsiher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2010-10-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780191614293

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Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to provide a more in-depth analysis, with close readings from an extraordinary scene in King Lear to a war poem by Carol Ann Duffy, and a series of striking examples of how literary texts change as they are transmitted from writer to reader. The narrative embraces not only the major literary movements such as Romanticism and Modernism, together with the most influential authors including Chaucer, Donne, Johnson, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens and Woolf, but also little-known stories such as the identity of the first English woman poet to be honoured with a collected edition of her works. Written with the flair and passion for which Jonathan Bate has become renowned, this book is the perfect Very Short Introduction for all readers and students of the incomparable literary heritage of these islands. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Modern Art A Very Short Introduction

Modern Art  A Very Short Introduction
Author: David Cottington
Publsiher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2005-02-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780191577826

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As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' art by asking such questions as: What has made a work of art qualify as modern (or fail to)? How has this selection been made? What is the relationship between modern and contemporary art? Is 'postmodernist' art no longer modern, or just no longer modernist - in either case, why, and what does this claim mean, both for art and the idea of 'the modern'? Cottington examines many key aspects of this subject, including the issue of controversy in modern art, from Manet's Dejeuner sur L'Herbe (1863) to Picasso's Les Demoiselles, and Tracey Emin's Bed, (1999); and the role of the dealer from the main Cubist art dealer Kahnweiler to Charles Saatchi. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Reading Writing and Romanticism

Reading  Writing  and Romanticism
Author: Lucy Newlyn
Publsiher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198187114

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Bridging the gulf between materialist and idealist approaches this study, informed by an historical awareness of Romantic hermeneutics and its later developments, examines how readers are imagined, addressed, and figured in Romantic poetry

The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry

The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry
Author: Michael Ferber
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2012-04-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521769068

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An engaging guide to reading, understanding and enjoying Romantic verse, designed for students approaching the period for the first time.

Romanticism Economics and the Question of culture

Romanticism  Economics and the Question of  culture
Author: Philip Connell
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199282056

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Drawing upon a wide range of source material, this study reassesses the idea that the Romantic defence of spiritual and humanistic culture developed as a reaction to the perceived individualistic, philistine values of the science of political economy.