Amorous Aesthetics: Intellectual Love in Romantic Poetry and Poetics, 1788-1853

by Seth T. Reno

Situated at the intersection of affect studies, ecocriticism, aesthetics, and Romantic studies, this book presents a genealogy of love in Romantic-era poetry, science, and philosophy. While feeling and emotion have been traditional mainstays of Romantic literature, the concept of love is under-studied and under-appreciated, often neglected or dismissed as idealized, illusory, or overly sentimental. However, Seth Reno shows that a particular conception...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786940833
• ISBN13: 9781786940834
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"