The long and winding road from Blake to the Beatles
By: Matthew Schneider.
Series: Nineteenth century major lives and letters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Blake, William, -- 1757-1827; Beatles; Music and literature -- History -- 19th century; Music and literature -- History -- 20th century; Poets, English -- 19th century; Poets, English -- 20th century; Transatlantic aesthetics and culture
Description: "The story of the Beatles begins not with the rock-'n'-roll revolution of the 1950s, but in the Romantic revolution of the 1790s, when age-old notions about literature, politics, education, and social relations changed forever. Tracing the Beatles to their late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century poetic, musical, and philosophic roots, The Long and Winding Road from Blake to the Beatles weaves literary criticism and cultural analysis together to how the Fab Four - in their songs, personalities, and relations with each other - mirror the themes and history of Anglo-American Romanticism."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ).
Table of contents: title: The transatlantic roots of rock romanticism; title: The nowhere man and Mother Nature's son : Coleridge/Lennon, Wordsworth/McCartney and the productivity of resentment; title: George Harrison and Byronic in-between-ness; title: Ringo Starr and the anxiety of romantic childhood; title: "What matters is the system!" : the disappearance of God and the rise of conspiracy theorizing; title: Epilogue : a new British Empire.