Romantic Revolution A History

Name: Romantic Revolution A History
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ISBN: 9780812980141

ISBN-10: 081298014X

ISBN-13: 9780812980141

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Authors: Tim Blanning

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From the preeminent historian of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries comes a superb, concise account of a cultural upheaval that still shapes sensibilities today. Long overshadowed by the contemporaneous American, French, and Industrial revolutions, the Romantic Revolution finally receives its due in Tim Blanning’s bold and brilliant work.A rebellion against the rationality of the Enlightenment, a rejection of “the Academy” in favor of public opinion, Romanticism was a profound shift in expression that altered the arts and ushered in modernity, even as it championed a return to the intuitive and the primitive. Blanning describes its beginnings in Rousseau’s novel LaNouvelle…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/14/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English

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