Description |
1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) : illustrations, music |
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture |
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Contents |
Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: 1798; Beethoven, Grande Sonate Pathétique; Wordsworth/Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads; Brothers Schlegel, Athenaeum; Tieck, Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen; Goya, El sueño de la razón produce monstruos; Findings; 2: 1808; Beethoven, Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, op. 67; Fichte, Reden an die deutsche Nation; Scott, Marmion; Arnim/Brentano, Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Zeitung für Einsiedler; Kleist, Die Hermannsschlacht; C.D. Friedrich, Tetschener Altar; Digression: Goethe, Faust I; Findings; 3. 1818 |
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Rossini, Mosè in EgittoLamartine, Saül; Hoffmann, Die Serapionsbrüder; Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; C.D. Friedrich, Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer; Findings; 4. 1828; Schubert, Winterreise; Scott, The Fair Maid of Perth; Hugo, Cromwell; Mickiewicz, Konrad Wallenrod; Eichendorff, Ezelin von Romano; Constable, Hampstead Heath, Branch Hill Pond; Findings; 5. 1838; Schumann, Kreisleriana; Brentano, Gockel, Hinkel und Gackeleia; Mérimée, La Vénus d'Ille; Poe, "Ligeia"; Delacroix, Médée furieuse; Findings; 6. 1848; Verdi, Il corsaro; Dumas, La dame aux camélias; Grillparzer, Der arme Spielmann |
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Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell HallSpitzweg, Gnom, Eisenbahn betrachtend; Findings; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index; Copyright |
Summary |
"Romanticism was a truly European phenomenon, extending roughly from the French Revolution to the 1848 revolutions and embracing not only literature and drama but also music and visual arts. Because of Romanticism's vast scope, most treatments have restricted themselves to single countries or to specific forms, notably literature, art, or music. This book takes a wider view by considering in each of six chapters representative examples of works-from across Europe and across a range of the arts-that were created in a single year. For instance, in the first chapter, focusing on the year 1798, Beethoven's Pathétique sonata, Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads, Tieck's novel Franz Sternbald's Wanderungen, and Goya's painting El sueño de la razón. The following chapters treat works from the years 1808, 1818, 1828, 1838, and 1848. This approach by "stages" makes it possible to determine characteristics of five stages of Romanticism in its historical and intellectual context and to note the conspicuous differences between these stages as European Romanticism developed-for example, the waxing and waning of religious themes, the shifting visions of landscape, the gradual ironic detachment from early Romanticism. In sum, the volume offers a unified vision of European Romanticism in all its aesthetic forms over the half-century of its growth and decline"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Arts -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
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Romanticism -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
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Arts
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Romanticism
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Europe
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Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781787443402 |
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178744340X |
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9781787443396 |
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1787443396 |
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