Author: Frank Edgar FarleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Scandinavian Influences in the English Romantic Movement
Author: Frank Edgar FarleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Medieval Revival and Its Influence on the Romantic Movement
Author: R. R. AgrawalPublisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN: 9788170172628
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
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British Romanticism and Continental Influences
Author: P. MortensenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230512208
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
During the 1790s and 1800s, cultural critics became convinced that Britain was being 'inundated' by pernicious literary translations imported from the European Continent. British Romanticism and Continental Influences discusses Romantic writers' complex and ambivalent responses to this threatening literary invasion. Confronted with foreign texts that seemed both attractive and repulsive, Mortensen argues, Romantic writers such as Wordsworth and Coleridge publicly distanced themselves from European sensationalism, even as they assimilated and revised its conventions in their own writing.
Scandinavian Influences in the English Romantic Movement
Author: Frank Edgar FarleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement
Author: George Benjamin WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 1488
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Author: The American Discovery of the Norse
Author: Erik Ingvar ThurinPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"The interest of a group of American writers in the Norse (Viking Age Scandinavians) began to develop in the late 1830s, reaching its high point at mid-century and tapering off after the Civil War as the members of the group neared the end of their careers (only one of the authors discussed, Julia Clinton Jones, joins the club at the end of the period)." "This period, defined as the original phase of the American discovery of the Norse, features two essayists, Emerson and Thoreau, who refer to the Norse in writing on a variety of topics. Fiction is represented by Melville alone (American writers of fiction like Stowe and Hawthorne shun the Norse). Neither the essayists nor Melville uses Norse themes as their primary subject. That is reserved for the poets: Lowell, Whittier, Taylor, Longfellow, and Julia Clinton Jones."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Rousseau and Romanticism
Author: Irving BabbittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Romanticism
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Nordic Terrors
Author: Robert William RixPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1839990465
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a setting for Gothic terror. This book explores the extensive use of Nordic superstition as it provided a vocabulary for Gothic texts, examining the cultural significance these references held for writers exploring Britain’s northern heritage. In Gothic publications, Nordic superstition sometimes parallels the representations of Catholicism, allowing writers to gloat at its phantasms and delusions. Thus, runic spells, incantations, and necromantic communications (of which Norse tradition afforded many examples) could replace practices usually assigned to Catholic superstition. Yet Nordic lore did more than merely supplant hackneyed Gothic formulas; it presented readers with an alternative conception of ‘Otherness’. Nordic texts—chiefly based on the Edda and the supernatural Scandinavian ballad tradition—were seen as pre-Christian beliefs of the Gothic (i.e., Germanic) peoples, including the Anglo-Saxons. The book traces the development of this Nordic Gothic, situating it within wider literary, historical, political, and cultural contexts.
The Golden Horns
Author: John L. GreenwayPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820332577
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
As an introduction to modern myth, The Golden Horns masterfully encompasses a wide circle of historical and literary materials. John Greenway first establishes the theoretical base of his discussion by examining the nature of time in Norse mythic consciousness. After suggesting several ways in which the mythic apprehension of reality conditioned medieval Icelandic narrative, he then elaborates on the dialectical relationship between myth and reason. Maintaining that myth is neither true nor false but always either expressive or not, the author then traces the origin, rise, and fall of two great modern myths of northern birth: seventeenth century Swedish Gothicism and the Ossianic craze of the eighteenth century--both of which illustrate the singular tension in the modern mind between mythic imperatives and the impulse to de-mythologize. Finally, The Golden Horns traces the romantic belief in a "new mythology" which synthesizes myth and reason from its early acceptance through its eventual repudiation. In his conclusions about the state of myth in the modern world, Greenway postulates that we have inherited the romantic respect for myth as truth but lack the romantic faith in transcendence necessary to establish myth's reality. Consequently, we express our mythic consciousness of who we are in quasi-scientific language, consciously manipulating mythic symbols for social control.