Romance and Revolution
Subtitle: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521021104
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; English; British Isles; Eastern European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Eastern European; 19th century; Adaptations; Great Britain; History; History and criticism; Politics and literature; Revolutionary poetry, English; Romances
First sentence: Of all the conceivable ways of describing a political revolution, few would seem more implausible than to compare it to a chivalric romance - especially if the event in question were the French Revolution of 1789, the revolution which sought to do away with all that remained of the feudal system under which the chivalric romances had once flourished.