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The Romantic Revolution

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780753828656

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Genre: Humanities / History

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A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.

Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two – the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution – have inspired the greatest volume of literature. But the third – the romantic revolution – was perhaps the most fundamental and far-reaching. From Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Burns, to Beethoven, Wagner, Berlioz, Rossini and Liszt, to Goya, Turner, Delacroix and Blake, the romantics brought about nothing less than a revolution when they tore up the artistic rule book of the old regime.

This was the period in which art acquired its modern meaning; for the first time the creator, rather than the created, took centre-stage. Artists became the high priests of a new religion, and as the concert hall and gallery came to take the place of the church, the public found a new subject worthy of veneration in paintings, poetry and music. Tim Blanning’s sparkling, wide-ranging survey traces the roots and evolution of a cultural revolution whose reverberations continue to be felt today.

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Splendidly provocative
Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES
Music, art, literature and politics are interwoven with assured erudition and clarity
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
The pan-European sweep of this concise, absorbing study takes the reader far beyond the familiar home-grown poets.
INDEPENDENT
Vivid, readable ... This brief survey is an elegant introduction to the emergence of an outlook that was revolutionary but is now the norm.
Judith Rice, GUARDIAN
Wide-ranging and expertly researched ... a thought provoking study
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