Fracture and Fragmentation in British Romanticism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521509671)

What associates fragmentation with Romanticism? In this book, Alexander Regier explains how fracture and fragmentation form a lens through which some central concerns of Romanticism can be analysed in a particularly effective way. These categories also supply a critical framework for a discussion of fundamental issues concerning language and thought in the period. Over the course of the volume, Regier discusses fracture and fragmentation thematically and structurally, offering new readings of Wordsworth, Kant, Burke, Keats, and De Quincey, as well as analysing central intellectual presuppositions of the period. He also highlights Romanticism's importance for contemporary scholarship, especially in the writings of Benjamin and de Man. More generally, Regier's discussion of fragmentation exposes a philosophical problem that lies behind the definition of Romanticism.

Author: Alexander Regier
ISBN-10: 052150967X
ISBN-13: 9780521509671
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2010
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.70d