Five Long Winters: The Trials of British Romanticism

by John Bugg

This book argues that the British government's repression of the 1790s rivals the French Revolution as the most important historical event for our understanding the development of Romantic literature. Romanticism has long been associated with both rebellion and escapism, and much Romantic historicism traces an arc from the outburst of democratic energy in British culture triggered by the French Revolution to a dwindling of enthusiasm later in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804785104
• ISBN13: 9780804785105
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"