The romantic revolution : a history
/ Tim Blanning
- 2011 modern library edition
- New York : Modern Library , c2011.
- xvii, 244 p., [8] p. of plates : ills. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-233) and index.
A superb, concise account of a cultural upheaval that still shapes sensibilities today, unearthing the origins of ideas now commonplace in our culture. It is the best introduction to an essential time whose influence would far outlast the mechanistic ¨age of the railway¨ that, in the mid-nineteenth century, replaced it.
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Romanticism----Europe
Europe----Civilization----19th century Europe---Intellectual life