• ISBN13: 9781118843192
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Wiley
• Publication Date: February 15, 2015
• Pages: 336
• Original Price: 27.95 USD
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 431 grams

About the Book Brimming with the fascinating eccentricities of a complex and confusing movement whose influences continue to resonate deeply, 30 Great Myths About the Romantics adds great clarity to what we know - or think we know - about one of the most important periods in literary history. <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 Jerusalem and Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn 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>