| #1709924 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 1998-05-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x.59 x5.98l,.84 | File type: PDF | 268 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Excited it was text required|By Iman Loves Reading|A classic read. A great scholarly addition to imperialism. Relates Romanticism to modern imperialism and capitalism, extensive scholarly articles have touched upon the same fact. It was a "cultural revolution" during the Romantic period.|10 of 38 people found the following review helpful.| Romantic i||"In this fascinating study, Makdisi...persuasively argues that romanticism emerges along with and in response to modernization and imperialism, that it marks a great historical crossroads between `one cultural moment and another'. Makdisi's brilliant reading
The years between 1790 and 1830 saw over 150 million people brought under British Imperial control, and one of the most momentous outbursts of British literary and artistic production, announcing a new world of social and individual traumas and possibilities. This book traces the emergence of new forms of imperialism and capitalism as part of a culture of modernization in the period, and looks at the ways in which they were identified with, and contested in, Romanticism,...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) | Saree Makdisi.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
