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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100198128959

ISBN-139780198128953

eBay Product ID (ePID)1421064

Product Key Features

Number of Pages140 Pages

Publication NameRomantic Cruxes : the English Essayists and the Spirit of the Age

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1988

SubjectLiterary, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

AuthorThomas Mcfarland

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width5.7 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN87-007873

Dewey Edition19

Reviews'This is a useful book, and its subject deserves further attention ... McFarland moves with tact and clarity that one would expect from the author of Romanticism and Ruin.'South Atlantic Review, 'helpful anthology ... the editor clearly believes that these writers have important things to say about their subjects, not just, fashionably and reflexively, about themselves.'The Times Literary Supplement, 'Romantic Cruxes is the most enjoyable book to appear on Romanticism for some time. McFarland's prose is limpid and precise, and is enhanced by his own considerable flair for figurative language and his awareness of the focusing power of a sharply-tuned image ... One only wishes that, ratherthan stimulating a critical approach to Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey, the book had initiated it and thus - such is the pleasure of McFarland's company - were twice or three times its present size.'The Charles Lamb Bulletin

Dewey Decimal824/.7/09145

SynopsisAlthough the English essayists Lamb, Hazlitt, and De Quincey are not customarily examined in the context of European Romanticism, their shared connection with the intellectual upheaval of that movement is undeniable. McFarland's study is the first to consider the essayists in this light, relating them to the larger engagements of their age. As Romantic Cruxes reveals, each writer was a figure deeply embattled amid the disruptions and accumulating stresses that defined Romanticism; each was more intense, darker, and more symbolic of larger situations in human experience than received opinion would have it. And each essayist projected his personality and experience into idiosyncratic statement that has won its author a lasting place in the pantheon of cultural achievement. Unlike most studies of these authors, which tend toward straightforward biography, simple appreciation, or narrowly historical treatments, this book illuminates both their statement and their achievement in the fullest possible terms., Although the English essayists Lamb, Hazlitt, and De Quincey are not customarily examined in the context of European Romanticism, their shared connection with the intellectual upheaval of that movement is undeniable. McFarland's study is the first to consider comprehensively the essayists in this light, relating them to the larger engagements of their age and illuminating their achievements in the fullest possible terms.

LC Classification NumberPR926.M35 1987