The Current of Romantic PassionUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1991 - 200 pagine Robinson's short essays are forays into the centre of the Romantic imagination and into current thinking on its workings. Deftly probing the ambivalence of Romantic writers on the subjects of passion and beauty, Robinson shows how this ambivalence is also central to the experience of the modern critic in Western society. Is the reader's experience of beauty in art an escape from troubling reality? Or does desire for beauty spur social criticism and reform? Does the representation of erotic passion, as a sign of social critique, exist to be transcended for disinterested spirituality? Or is such passion the very site or the struggle for individual and class rights? |
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Romanticism and Passion and Beauty | 3 |
The Sentiment of ExistenceI 21 | 4 |
The Sentiment of Existence and the Shock from Nature | 25 |
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adolescent aesthetic ambivalence amour amour de soi beauty becomes beloved Blake bliss Burke Coleridge Coleridge's consciousness consolation critical culture disinterested domestic Dorothy Wordsworth erotic desire erotic passion essay experience Fanny Brawne fantasy feeling feminine fight Frost at Midnight gaze Goethe happiness Hazlitt human Ibid idyllic imagination intensity intimacy John Thelwall Keats Keats's Klopstock Lake Como Lake of Bienne Lamb liberation Lime-Tree Bower Lionel Trilling lives lover Marcuse Maria Mary Mary Wollstonecraft masculine metaphor mind nature novel object Oothoon passage passion and desire passion-love person poem poet poet's poetic language political Prelude present psychological radical reader reality Revolution Roland Barthes Romantic literature Romantic poetry Romanticism Rosamund Rousseau says scene Schiller seems sense sentiment of existence sexual Shelley Shelley's social society Solitary Reaper solitude soul spirit Stendhal sublime sweet Thelwall's tion trans transcendence troubled pleasure turns vision Werther William Wordsworth wish Wollstonecraft woman words writing York
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