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European Romanticism

Alternative title:
Ambivalent Responses to the Sense of a New Epoch
Abstract:

Attempts to define Romanticism characteristically begin by conceding the difficulty, even impossibility, of the task. The entry on the subject in an encyclopedia of German literary history summarizes the challenge: “The Romantic movement must be understood as a unity, but it is in itself so polymorphous and contradictory that both a definition and an historical presentation are extraordinarily difficult.” Rather than proposing a normative definition, as if that were possible, this chapter wil...

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10.1017/9781316160855.003

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University of Oxford
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HUMS
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English Faculty
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University College
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Host title:
Cambridge History of Modern European Thought. Volume 1: The Nineteenth Century
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Cambridge Histories - British & European History
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40-64
Publication date:
2019-08-29
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2017-11-08

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