The Romantic Revolution
$26.99
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
13 December 2011
Summary
Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution - have inspired the greatest volume of literature. But the third - the romantic revolution - was perhaps the most fundamental and far-reaching. From it derive virtually all the cultural axioms of the modern world: the stress on genius, originality and individual expression; the dominance of music; the obsession with sexuality, dreams and the subconscious; the public as pat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753828656 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0753828650 |
| Author: | Prof. Tim Blanning, Tim Blanning |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 13 December 2011 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
Wide-ranging and expertly researched … a thought provoking study
Splendidly provocative – Dominic Sandbrook * SUNDAY TIMES *
Music, art, literature and politics are interwoven with assured erudition and clarity * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
The pan-European sweep of this concise, absorbing study takes the reader far beyond the familiar home-grown poets. * INDEPENDENT *
Vivid, readable … This brief survey is an elegant introduction to the emergence of an outlook that was revolutionary but is now the norm. – Judith Rice * GUARDIAN *
Wide-ranging and expertly researched … a thought provoking study * GOOD BOOK GUIDE *
About The Author
Prof. Tim Blanning
Tim Blanning is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy. He has been described by The Sunday Times as ‘a long-time Cambridge academic who can make even the most arcane subject thrum with interest’. He lives in Cambridge.
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