The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 5, RomanticismGeorge Alexander Kennedy This latest volume in the celebrated Cambridge History of Literary Criticism addresses literary criticism of the Romantic period, chiefly in Europe. Its seventeen chapters are by internationally-respected academics and explore a range of key topics and themes. The book is designed to help readers locate essential information and to develop approaches and viewpoints for a deeper understanding of issues discussed by Romantic critics or those that were fundamental to their works. Primary and secondary bibliographies provide a guide for further research. |
Contents
Classical standards in the period | 7 |
Innovation and modernity | 29 |
The French Revolution | 49 |
Transcendental philosophy and Romantic criticism | 72 |
Nature | 92 |
Scientific models | 115 |
Religion and literature | 138 |
Language theory and the art of understanding | 162 |
TILOTTAMA RAJAN | 250 |
The impact of Shakespeare | 272 |
The vocation of criticism and the crisis of the republic | 296 |
Women gender and literary criticism | 321 |
Literary history and historicism | 338 |
Literature and the other arts | 362 |
Bibliography | 387 |
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The transformation of rhetoric | 185 |
Romantic irony | 203 |
Theories of genre | 226 |
MARSHALL BROWN | |
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