
Romantic Literature
Hodder Arnold (Publisher)
Published on 27. September 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-340-80670-8 (ISBN)
Description
Brief, manageable and affordable, the books in the 'Contexts' series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, literary associations and wider cultural climate of the main literary periods. As well as offering a background in relevant social history, these texts include selected extracts from original documents to give a full flavour of the period in question. The Romantic period was a turbulent time in which England changes from a primarily agricultural society to a modern industrial nation. The French Revolution, economic cycles of inflation and depression, and an enlarged and increasingly restless working class, created circumstances for profound social and political change. Looking at poetry and fiction against the 'spirit of the age', this book discusses issues of science and art, psychology and the supernatural, revolutionary politics and social vision, satire and morality, and at the same time provides an introduction to the work of Austen, Blake, Burns, Byron, Keats, Radcliffe, Shelley, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and William Wordsworth.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-80670-8 (9780340806708)
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Jennifer Breen | Mary Noble
Romantic Literature
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09/2002
Hodder Arnold
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Jennifer Breen is at School of Arts and Humanities, University of North London. Mary Noble is a freelance calligrapher. She is a Fellow of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators and she is the past chairman of the Calligraphy & Lettering Arts Society. She is the co-author of two previous calligraphy handbooks.