Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity (Paperback)

Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields--not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In "Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity" Michael Lowy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the unity that underlies the extraordinary diversity of romanticism from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.
After critiquing previous conceptions of romanticism and discussing its first European manifestations, Lowy and Sayre propose a typology of the sociopolitical positions held by romantic writers-from "restitutionist" to various revolutionary/utopian forms. In subsequent chapters, they give extended treatment to writers as diverse as Coleridge and Ruskin, Charles Peguy, Ernst Bloch and Christa Wolf. Among other topics, they discuss the complex relationship between Marxism and romanticism before closing with a reflection on more contemporary manifestations of romanticism (for example, surrealism, the events of May 1968, and the ecological movement) as well as its future.
Students and scholars of literature, humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies will be interested in this elegant and thoroughly original book.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Post-Contemporary Interventions
Release date:	2002
First published:	2002
Authors:	Michael Loewy • Robert Sayre
Translators:	Catherine Porter
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	317
ISBN-13:	978-0-8223-2794-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8223-2794-5
Barcode:	9780822327943

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