Published by Pimlico, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Author:
Rupert Christiansen
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781844134212
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EAN: 9781844134212
Published: 1 Jul 2004
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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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
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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