The most readable and reliable guide to the culture and society of the Romantic period in Europe.
Rupert Christiansen was educated at Cambridge and Columbia universities. He is the author of Arthur Clough, A Pocket Guide to Opera, Paris Babylon and, most recently, The Visitors- Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain. He is opera critic and art columnist for the Daily Telegraph, and a member of the editorial board of Opera. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.
Both scholarly and funny... a stylish, spirited and provoking
extravaganza
*Evening Standard*
Exuberant and inventive
*The Times*
Entertainingly anecdotal, as well as intelligently documentary
*Times Literary Supplement*
Exciting, absorbing and revealing
*Sunday Times*
A feast for those for whom the word 'joy' was never associated with
English lessons
*Daily Mail*
Both scholarly and funny... a stylish, spirited and provoking
extravaganza -- Richard Holmes * Evening Standard *
Exuberant and inventive -- Peter Ackroyd * The Times *
Entertainingly anecdotal, as well as intelligently documentary *
Times Literary Supplement *
Exciting, absorbing and revealing -- John Carey * Sunday Times
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A feast for those for whom the word 'joy' was never associated with
English lessons -- Val Hennessey * Daily Mail *
Straddling literary history and biography, Christiansen aims to understand Romanticism in terms of the individual human dramas that emerged from the personal and cultural turmoil surrounding the French Revolution and the age of Napoleon. Wordsworth, Byron, and the other major figures are thus read according to their personal relations and responses to their circumstances. Christiansen breaks no new ground, and he does not treat his material in great depth or detail, but his account is lucid, with a keen awareness of the narrative potential of his material. Further, he places the British Romantics in company with their European contemporaries from Chenier to Kleist and Pushkin. An engaging introduction to the Romantic era.T.L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.
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