Britain's bloodless revolutions; 1688 and the romantic reform of literature.9781403941077 Britain's bloodless blood·less adj. 1. Deficient in or lacking blood. 2. Pale and anemic in color: smiled with bloodless lips. 3. revolutions; 1688 and the romantic reform of literature. Jarrells, Anthony S. Palgrave Macmillan 2005 229 pages $65.00 Hardcover Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism romanticism, term loosely applied to literary and artistic movements of the late 18th and 19th cent. Characteristics of Romanticism Resulting in part from the libertarian and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution, the romantic movements had , and the cultures of print PR447 Jarrells (English, U. of South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. ) argues that Britain's Revolution of 1688 served as a major context for understanding, supporting, challenging, and representing the French Revolution in print and that the post-1789 rewriting re·write v. re·wrote , re·writ·ten , re·writ·ing, re·writes v.tr. 1. To write again, especially in a different or improved form; revise. 2. of the 1688 Revolution helped give shape and purpose to a newly emergent emergent /emer·gent/ (e-mer´jent) 1. coming out from a cavity or other part. 2. pertaining to an emergency. emergent 1. coming out from a cavity or other part. 2. coming on suddenly. category of literature. He follows the shift from an expansive, Enlightenment-based print culture to a private, imaginative realm of literature that subordinated politics to culture. Opposing more traditional readings of Romanticism, Jarrells contends that literature did not manifest the failure to revolt but in fact helped to occasion it. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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