Classicism and romanticism

Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist. Jefferson embraced the influence of antiquity through his adoption of class...

Romanticism was often construed in France, not least after Mme de Staël, as a German phenomenon, given over to philosophy and the pleasures of the imagination. But Henri Beyle, as ...

This chapter explains that the movement that eventually came to be known as Romanticism had its origins in politicized canon-formation. A particular literary taste was developed by...

The joint discovery of sensibility and subjectivity is the hallmark of early Romanticism in Russia. In the 1780s and 1790s, younger writers—mostly amateur men of letters and the oc...

This book presents a new way of looking at Wole Soyinka’s engagement with the classical past.Nigerian author and activist Wole Soyinka was the first Black African author to win the...

Oscar Wilde associated ancient Greece and modern France as the homelands of artistic autonomy and personal freedom. France and the French language were crucial in his adoption of a...