Romanticism and the painful pleasures of modern life

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author : Henderson Andrea K. (Auteur)
Format : Book
Language : anglais
Title statement : Romanticism and the painful pleasures of modern life / Andrea K. Henderson
Published : Cambridge, New York, Melbourne [etc.] : Cambridge University Press , cop. 2008
Physical Description : 1 vol. (xi-295 p.)
Series : Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 75
Subjects :
  • Introduction: submitting to liberty
  • Finance and flagellation
  • From sadism to masochism in the novels of Frances Burney
  • The aesthetics of passion: Joanna Baillie's defense of the picturesque in an age of sublimity
  • Practicing politics in the comfort of home
  • Mastery and melancholy in suburbia
  • Conclusion: languishing femmes fatales