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[2007]
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"In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through their poems risked notoriety, or courted it. Among the most subversive were a group of young writers known as the Romantics: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth and John Keats. These rebels believed poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language. And they were barely out of their teens when their...
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2019.
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Although the fact may be surprising to some, landscape painting is positively thriving in the 21st century―indeed, the genre has arguably never felt as vital as it does today. The reasons why, if speculative, surely include our imminent environmental collapse and increasingly digitally mediated existence. Landscape Painting Now is the first book of its kind to take a global view of its subject, featuring more than eighty outstanding contemporary...
7) Romanticism
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Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Examines the art of romanticism and the artistic freedom it gave to future generations of artists."--From source other than the Library of Congress
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Backgrounds to English literature volume 2
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Provides historical, cultural, and social contexts for the study of English literature, looking at the literary genres and highlighting key writers and works from the Romantic period, and includes a time line, glossaries, and resources for further study.
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Pub. Date
c2006
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Explores the social, cultural, and historical contexts of American literature in the first half of the 19th century, when social reform movements, international upheavals, and a rapidly expanding frontier combined to shape the literary identity of the new United States. Authors discussed include Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau,...
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Pub. Date
2016
Description
This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have each been the subject of numerous biographies, yet no one has ever examined their lives in one book-until now. In Romantic Outlaws, Charlotte Gordon reunites the trailblazing author who wroteA Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the Romantic visionary who gave the worldFrankenstein-two courageous...
17) The Prince
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The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the first scientific treatment of politics as it is practiced rather than as it ought to be practiced. Harvey C. Mansfield's brilliant translation of this classic work, along with...
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