Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

by David Duff

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The revival of romance as a literary form and the imaginative impact of the French Revolution are acknowledged influences on English Romanticism, but their relationship has rarely been addressed. In this innovative study of the transformations of a genre, David Duff examines the paradox whereby the unstable visionary world of romance came to provide an apt language for the representation of revolution, and how the literary form was itself politicized...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521021103

ISBN13:9780521021104

Release Date:October 2005

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:300 Pages

Weight:0.97 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Poetry

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