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Romanticism and the Painful Pleasures of Modern Life

CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLISHING
03 / 2011
9780521175449
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Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

Sinopsis

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.