Romanticism and the painful pleasures of modern life / Andrea K. Henderson.
Romanticism and the painful pleasures of modern life / Andrea K. Henderson.
Romanticism and the painful pleasures of modern life / Andrea K. Henderson.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N820.9007/11
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English
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xi, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Submitting to liberty -- 1. Finance and flagellation -- 2. From sadism to masochism in the novels of Frances Burney -- 3. The aesthetics of passion: Joanna Baillie's defense of the picturesque in an age of sublimity -- 4. Practicing politics in the comfort of home -- 5. Mastery and mel...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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England
Date Published
2008.
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"Writers of the Romantic period were fascinated by experiences of pain and misery, and explored the ability to derive pleasure, and produce creative energy, out of pain and submission. These interests were closely connected to the failure of the industrial and democratic revolutions to fulfil their promise of increased economic and political power...
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Romanticism and the painful pleasures of modern life / Andrea K. Henderson.
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 75.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N820.9007/11
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74VMQ3yx3y2Z
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9780521884020 (hbk.) :
0521884020 (hbk.) :
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820.9007
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991000464169702626
