Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism
(Part of the SUNY Series: Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Series)
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Nervous Reactions considers Victorian responses to Romanticism, particularly the way in which the Romantic period was frequently constructed in Victorian-era texts as a time of nervous or excitable authors (and readers) at odds with Victorian values of self-restraint, moderation, and stolidity. Represented in various ways--as a threat to social order, as a desirable freedom of feeling, as a pathological weakness that must be cured--this nervousness,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0791459713
ISBN13:9780791459713
Release Date:January 2004
Publisher:State University of New York Press
Length:295 Pages
Weight:1.18 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.6" x 9.0"
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