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Why the Romantics Matter (Hardcover)
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Why the Romantics Matter (Hardcover)
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A renowned scholar's reflections on the romantic period, its
disparate participants, and our unacknowledged debt to them With
his usual wit and elan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the
contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here,
in this concise and inviting volume, he reformulates the definition
of romanticism and provides a fresh account of the immense
achievements of romantic writers and artists in all media. Gay's
scope is wide, his insights sharp. He takes on the recurring
questions about how to interpret romantic figures and their works.
Who qualifies to be a romantic? What ties together romantic figures
who practice in different countries, employ different media, even
live in different centuries? How is modernism indebted to
romanticism, if at all? Guiding readers through the history of the
romantic movement across Britain, France, Germany, and Switzerland,
Gay argues that the best way to conceptualize romanticism is to
accept its complicated nature and acknowledge that there is no
"single basket" to contain it. Gay conceives of romantics in
"families," whose individual members share fundamental values but
retain unique qualities. He concludes by demonstrating that
romanticism extends well into the twentieth century, where its deep
and lasting impact may be measured in the work of writers such as
T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf.
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