To fall in love with someone feels like such a personal and spontaneous process, it can sound strange—and even rather insulting—to suggest that something else (we might call it society or culture) may ...
Claire Connolly’s ambitious study captures well both the gradual development of Irish Romanticism and its ‘copiousness’ ...
Romanticism describes the era of the 19th century in which artists and poets strove for individuality and originality instead of conformity. Romantics rejected the traditional aesthetic values of the ...
About the author:Jeffrey N. Cox is the author of and is a professor of English and humanities at the University of Colorado Boulder. Book description: Jeffrey N. Cox reconsiders the history of British ...
If you’ve watched The Nutcracker, listened to Schumann’s Kreisleriana, or read Edgar Allan Poe, you’ve encountered the influence of E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), the man who dreamed many features of ...
NEW YORK — There’s a reason the terms “romantic” and “romanticism” are so often preceded by the adjective “hopeless.” Romantics want to lose their identity in something bigger and deeper. But identity ...
Steve Jobs died a year ago October 5th, and we can expect his ghost to appear in any number of recollections and assessments as the anniversary approaches. I'd like to talk here about a spirit that ...
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