Legacies of Romanticism: Literature, Culture, Aesthetics 9781136273490, 9780415890083

This book visits the Romantic legacy that was central to the development of literature and culture from the 1830s onward

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English Pages 309 Year 2012

Legacies of Romanticism: Literature, Culture, Aesthetics
9781136273490, 9780415890083

Legacies of the Sublime offers a highly original, subtle and persuasive account of the aesthetics of the sublime in late

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Enlightenment - both the phenomenon specific to the eighteenth century and the continuing trend in Western thought - is

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