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Wu, Duncan

30 Great Myths about the Romantics

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Brimming with the fascinating eccentricities of a complex and confusing movement whose influences continue to resonate deeply, 30 Great Myths About the Romantics adds great clarity to what we know – or think we know – about one of the most important periods in literary history.

  • Explores the various misconceptions commonly associated with Romanticism, offering provocative insights that correct and clarify several of the commonly-held myths about the key figures of this era
  • Corrects some of the biases and beliefs about the Romantics that have crept into the 21st-century zeitgeist – for example that they were a bunch of drug-addled atheists who believed in free love; that Blake was a madman; and that Wordsworth slept with his sister
  • Celebrates several of the mythic objects, characters, and ideas that have passed down from the Romantics into contemporary culture – from Blake’s Jerusalem and Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn to the literary genre of the vampire
  • Engagingly written to provide readers with a fun yet scholarly introduction to Romanticism and key writers of the period, applying the most up-to-date scholarship to the series of myths that continue to shape our appreciation of their work

Keywords: Romantics; literary Romantics; Romanticism; The Romantics; Romantic period; English Romanticism; the Enlightenment; Blake; Coleridge; Wordsworth; Jane Austen; Byron; Shelley; Keats; Poe; Hawthorne; literary myths; The Romantics and incest; Romanticism and faith; Romanticism and rationality; Romanticism and imagination; Nineteenth century English literature; 19th Century English literature; literary criticism; Keats-Shelley Memorial Association; The Charles Lamb Society, 18th Century English Literature, Literary Criticism & History, 18th Century English Literature, Literary Criticism & History

Author(s)
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Publication year
2015
Language
en
Edition
1
Page amount
336 pages
Category
Litterary Studies
Format
Ebook
eISBN (ePUB)
9781118843185
Printed ISBN
9781118843192

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