English Romantic Irony

by Anne K. Mellor

Anne Mellor here offers the conceptual framework for a better understanding of the Romantic writers. Her penetrating study yields new interpretations of Byron, Keats, Carlyle, and Coleridge. The Romantics have been seen as expressing a secularized version of a divinely ordered universe. Mellor emphasizes another strain in Romanicism, one linked to the philosophical skepticism and social turbulence of the a conception of the universe as random motion, as a fertile chaos that always throws up new forms.

Genres: Romanticism

236 pages, Paperback

First published September 8, 1980

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[Russel · Rating 5 out of 5]

i was supposed to read this for my comps & even answered a question about it because i think i read the preface & sort of got it but it's actually pretty good & i just got through it because i am alone in the world & Could Not Think Of Anything Better To Do With My Time & am almost out of pot