Anger, revolution, and romanticism

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Anger, revolution, and romanticism

Statement of responsibility

Andrew M. Stauffer

Title variation

Anger, Revolution, & Romanticism

Creator

• Stauffer, Andrew M., 1968-

Subject

• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• English literature -- French influences
• France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence
• France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Literature and the revolution
• Revolutions in literature
• Romanticism -- Great Britain
• Anger in literature

Language

eng

Summary

The Romantic age was one of anger and its consequences: revolution and reaction, terror and war. Andrew M. Stauffer explores the changing place of anger in the literature and culture of the period, as English men and women rethought their relationship to the aggressive passions in the wake of the French Revolution. Drawing on diverse fields and discourses such as aesthetics, politics, medicine and the law and tracing the classical legacy the Romantics inherited, Stauffer charts the period's struggle to define the relationship of anger to justice and the creative self. In their poetry and prose, Romantic authors including Blake, Coleridge, Godwin, Shelley and Byron negotiate the meanings of indignation and rage amidst a clamourous debate over the place of anger in art and in civil society. This innovative book has much to contribute to the understanding of Romantic literature and the cultural history of the emotions. --

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• Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 62

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UkCbUP

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Cambridge studies in Romanticism
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Series volume

62