30 Great Myths About The Romantics

<p>Brimming with the fascinating eccentricities of a complex and confusing movement whose influences continue to resonate deeply, <i>30 Great Myths About the Romantics</i> adds great clarity to what we know – or <i>think</i> we know – about one of the most important periods in literary history.</p> <ul> <li>Explores the various misconceptions commonly associated with Romanticism, offering provocative insights that correct and clarify several of the commonly-held myths about the key figures of this era</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Corrects some of the biases and beliefs about the Romantics that have crept into the 21st-century zeitgeist – for example that they were a bunch of drug-addled atheists who believed in free love; that Blake was a madman; and that Wordsworth slept with his sister</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Celebrates several of the mythic objects, characters, and ideas that have passed down from the Romantics into contemporary culture – from Blake’s <i>Jerusalem</i> and Keats’s <i>Ode on a Grecian Urn</i> to the literary genre of the vampire</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Engagingly written to provide readers with a fun yet scholarly introduction to Romanticism and key writers of the period, applying the most up-to-date scholarship to the series of myths that continue to shape our appreciation of their work</li> </ul>