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Romantic Affinities: Portraits From an Age 1780-1830

Rupert Christiansen

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Published by Pimlico, part of Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback

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EAN: 9781844134212
Published: 1 Jul 2004

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Romantic Affinities presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of Europe in an era of tumultuous change, as experienced and communicated by the writers of the age. Set against the hopes and dreams inspired by the French Revolution, the disillusion caused by its failure and the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars that followed, Rupert Christiansen draws the threads into an exciting narrative.

Ranging over politics, art, music and using the voices of celebrated Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Goethe and Pushkin, as well as less familiar Chenier, Hölderlin, Hoffman and de Staël, he vividly recreates one of the most fascinating and complex periods of modern history and offers fresh perspecitves on its magnificent literature and culture.

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What the critics say

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

About the Author

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.

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