Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries  -  Marilyn Butler

English Literature and Its Background, 1760-1830 (Opus Books)

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This study of the Romantics--Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, Scott, Bryon, Shelley, and Keats--places these richly varied writers into their proper historical setting. Butler relates the French and American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the expansion of agriculture, trade, and industry, and growing economic and social pressures to the cultural forces which shaped their work. She reveals the common factors which engaged the separate efforts of so many individual creative minds, and the fierce person...
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1985 Uitgever: Oxford University Press Usa 224 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0192891324 ISBN-13: 9780192891327