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1) Romanticism
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Examines the art of romanticism and the artistic freedom it gave to future generations of artists."--From source other than the Library of Congress
4) Romanticism
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1979]
Lexile measure
1490L
Language
English
Description
'This stylish and erudite thematic study of the influence Romanticism exerts upon Western culture and particularly the visual arts is the companion volume to Honour's equally valuable New-classicism.... The text is supported by a useful selection of illustrations.... Excellent footnotes and a good index.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. Eugene McCarraher reveals how Mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world. If socialists and Wall Street bankers can agree on anything, it is the extreme rationalism of capital. At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the "disenchantment" of the world, stripping material objects...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Book
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Nightmare Abbey is a satirical novel, poking fun at the morbid obsessions of romantic literature. Peacock also took the opportunity to caricature and pillory actual historical figures. It centers around the melancholy gentleman and his son who inhabit Nightmare Abbey, their array of guests, and their depressing servants.
Crotchet Castle contains all the humour and social satire for which Peacock is famous. Its lively farce is more ambitious than...
Author
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Intimately tied to the tenets of the Enlightenment, Romanticism arose as a sort of reaction to that trend, most noticeably in the arts. The movement, which originated in Europe in the late 18th century and lasted until the mid- 19th century, focused on emotion, imagination, an attachment to nature, nostalgia, and spirituality. The art, music and literature produced by that period have been some of history's most influential, and the tenets of the...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through their poems risked notoriety, or courted it. Among the most subversive were a group of young writers known as the Romantics: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth and John Keats. These rebels believed poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language. And they were barely out of their teens when their...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels-poets, novelists, philosophers-who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief, and radical ideas launched Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of the greatest thinkers of the time. When did we begin to be as self-centered as we are today? At what point did we expect to have the right...
Author
Series
Backgrounds to English literature volume 2
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English