Romanticism and the Painful Pleasures of Modern Life

Auteur: Henderson, Andrea K. (University of California, Irvine)
Editeur: Cambridge University Press
Writers of the Romantic period were fascinated by experiences of pain and misery, and explored the ability to derive pleasure, and produce creative energy, out of masochism and submission. This provocative and ambitious study ranges widely through early nineteenth-century culture to reveal the underlying power relations that shaped Romanticism.

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Writers of the Romantic period were fascinated by experiences of pain and misery, and explored the ability to derive pleasure, and produce creative energy, out of masochism and submission. This provocative and ambitious study ranges widely through early nineteenth-century culture to reveal the underlying power relations that shaped Romanticism.
ISBN / EAN 9780521884020
Auteur Henderson, Andrea K. (University of California, Irvine)
Editeur Cambridge University Press