The Romantic Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Romantic Imagination write by Cecil Maurice Bowra. This book was released on 1949-02-05. The Romantic Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination
Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination write by Frederick Burwick. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Opium and the Romantic Imagination
Opium and the Romantic Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opium and the Romantic Imagination write by Alethea Hayter. This book was released on 2009. Opium and the Romantic Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Does the habit of taking drugs make authors write better, or worse, or differently? Does it alter the quality of their consciousness, shape their imagery, influence their technique? For the Romantic writers of the nineteenth century, many of whom experimented with opium and some of whom were addicted to it, this was an important question, but it has never been fully answered. In this study Alethea Hayter examines the work of five writers - Crabbe, Coleridge, De Quincey, Wilkie Collins and Francis Thompson - who were opium addicts for many years, and of several other writers - notably Keats, Edgar Allan Poe and Baudelaire, but also Walter Scott, Dickens, Mrs Browning, James Thomson and others - who are known to have taken opium at times. The work of these writers is discussed in the context of nineteenth-century opinion about the uses and dangers of opium, and of Romantic ideas on the creative imagination, on dreams and hypnagogic visions, and on imagery, so that the idiosyncrasies of opium-influenced writing can be isolated from their general literary background. The examination reveals a strange and miserable region of the mind in which some of the greatest poetic imaginations of the nineteenth century were imprisoned.
Imagination and Science in Romanticism
Imagination and Science in Romanticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagination and Science in Romanticism write by Richard C. Sha. This book was released on 2021-03-02. Imagination and Science in Romanticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sha concludes that both fields benefited from thinking about how imagination could cooperate with reason—but that this partnership was impossible unless imagination's penchant for fantasy could be contained.
Slavery and the Romantic Imagination
Slavery and the Romantic Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slavery and the Romantic Imagination write by Debbie Lee. This book was released on 2017-09-14. Slavery and the Romantic Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The Romantic movement had profound social implications for nineteenth-century British culture. Among the most significant, Debbie Lee contends, was the change it wrought to insular Britons' ability to distance themselves from the brutalities of chattel slavery. In the broadest sense, she asks what the relationship is between the artist and the most hideous crimes of his or her era. In dealing with the Romantic period, this question becomes more specific: what is the relationship between the nation's greatest writers and the epic violence of slavery? In answer, Slavery and the Romantic Imagination provides a fully historicized and theorized account of the intimate relationship between slavery, African exploration, "the Romantic imagination," and the literary works produced by this conjunction. Though the topics of race, slavery, exploration, and empire have come to shape literary criticism and cultural studies over the past two decades, slavery has, surprisingly, not been widely examined in the most iconic literary texts of nineteenth-century Britain, even though emancipation efforts coincide almost exactly with the Romantic movement. This study opens up new perspectives on Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Keats, and Mary Prince by setting their works in the context of political writings, antislavery literature, medicinal tracts, travel writings, cartography, ethnographic treatises, parliamentary records, philosophical papers, and iconography.
