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English Fiction & Prose Literature - 19th Century - Literary Criticism, Romanticism, English Poetry - 19th Century - Literary Criticism
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Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin

by Mcfarland
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Overview

Under the concept of fragmentation, the author correlates and unifies such diverse data as the preoccupation with unity and wholeness, the prevalence of suicide, the fascination with revolution, the increasing ratio of incomplete to complete literary statements, the striving toward system in philosophy, the endemic spread of melancholy, and the cult of architectural ruins.

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Book Details

Published
July 1, 1992
Publisher
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1981.
Pages
472
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780691064376

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