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Overview
Perhaps the most significant event of the Romantic period was the explosion in print media. In an age of personality, writers strove for attention by dramatizing their status as a 'neglected genius', someone who wrote, not for the mass market or for profit but for the discerning few. However, where all Romantics are misfits, some misfits did not fit. Examining the process of inclusion and exclusion as it happened among first-generation Romantics, where the tension between the late Enlightenment and its Romantic 'counter' was at its most acute, Romantic Misfits argues that Romanticism was institutionalized among the ruins of the public sphere and that civic engagement was a casualty of the transcendental aesthetics that arose to buttress a new, exclusive conception of Literature.Book Details
Published
August 21, 2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages
264
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781137018526