The Sacred and Secular Canon in Romanticism

by David Jasper

Book Overview

This book focuses on some of the greatest writers and artists of European Romanticism, including S. T. Coleridge, Wordsworth, J. M. W. Turner, Goethe, Holderlin, and, in the later nineteenth century, Matthew Arnold. Concluding with a discussion of the significance of Romanticism for our understanding of postmodernity, its various chapters explore the place of the biblical canon as the central element in the shift from the sacred to the secular, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606088343
• ISBN13: 9781606088340
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"