Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism

Nervous Reactions considers Victorian responses to Romanticism, particularly the way in which the Romantic period was frequently constructed in Victorian-era texts as a time of nervous or excitable authors (and readers) at odds with Victorian values of self-restraint, moderation, and stolidity. Represented in various ways--as a threat to social order, as a desirable freedom of feeling, as a pathological weakness that must be cured--this nervousness,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791459713
• ISBN13: 9780791459713
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.0"