The triumph of Romanticism; collected essays.

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Author / Creator:Peckham, Morse
Edition:[1st ed.]
Imprint:Columbia, University of South Carolina Press [1970]
Description:v, 462 p. 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2138072
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ISBN:087249182X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Toward a theory of Romanticism
  • Toward a theory of Romanticism: II, reconsiderations
  • The dilemma of a century: the four stages of Romanticism
  • Romanticism: the present state of theory
  • The problem of the nineteenth century
  • Constable and Wordsworth
  • The place of architecture in nineteenth-century romantic culture
  • Can Victorian have a useful meaning?--Hawthorne and Melville as European authors
  • Darwinism and Darwinisticism
  • Aestheticism to modernism: fulfillment or revolution?--What did Lady Windermere learn?--The current crisis in the arts: Pop, Op, and Mini
  • Art and disorder
  • Art and creativity: proposal for research
  • Order and disorder in fiction
  • Discontinuity in fiction: persona, narrator, scribe
  • Literary interpretation as conventionalized verbal behavior
  • Theory of criticism
  • Is poetry self-expression?--Metaphor: a little plain speaking on a weary subject
  • The intentional? fallacy?--On the historical interpretations of literature.