| Description |
ix, 230 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Nineteenth-century major lives and letters |
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Nineteenth century major lives and letters |
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Nineteenth-century major lives and letters.
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| Contents |
The transatlantic roots of rock romanticism -- The nowhere man and Mother Nature's son : Coleridge/Lennon, Wordsworth/McCartney and the productivity of resentment -- George Harrison and Byronic in-between-ness -- Ringo Starr and the anxiety of romantic childhood -- "What matters is the system!" : the disappearance of God and the rise of conspiracy theorizing -- Epilogue : a new British Empire |
| Summary |
"The story of the Beatles begins not with the rock-'n'-roll revolution of the 1950s, but in the Romantic revolution of the 1790s, when age-old notions about literature, politics, education, and social relations changed forever. Tracing the Beatles to their late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century poetic, musical, and philosophic roots, The Long and Winding Road from Blake to the Beatles weaves literary criticism and cultural analysis together to how the Fab Four - in their songs, personalities, and relations with each other - mirror the themes and history of Anglo-American Romanticism."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-221) and index |
| Subject |
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
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Beatles.
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| SUBJECT |
Transatlantic aesthetics and culture. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007076625
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| Subject |
Music and literature -- History -- 19th century.
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Music and literature -- History -- 20th century.
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Poets, English -- 19th century.
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Poets, English -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
2007044854 |
| ISBN |
1403984891 (alk. paper) |
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9781403984890 (alk. paper) |
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