Narrow definitions of Romanticism are avoided: the contributors emphasize the Romantic strands within ... The purpose of these and other envisaged collections is to bring together comparative, ...

Romanticism, he said, may perhaps be called the literature of intoxication and dream. Freud has pictured the human ego as living a harassed life between the conflicting claims of the instinctive, ...

The unit will introduce students to primary and theoretical texts addressing central questions about political contexts of writing in the Romantic period. Issues that may be studied include: war, ...

By the 1850s, Queen Victoria had built her Gothic fantasy in Aberdeenshire and tartan was everywhere. What happened in between? In the second episode of her series on Romantic history, Rosemary Hill ...

In the third episode of her series looking at the way history was transformed in the Romantic period, Rosemary Hill talks to Roey Sweet about the new breed of multi-disciplinary investigators, who, in ...

The Romantic period started around 1830 and ended around 1900, as compositions became increasingly expressive and inventive. Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano music, dramatic operas, and ...