Browsing by Subject "Romanticism"
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Affectionate Friends: Friendship and Collaboration in the Renaissance and the Romantic Era
(2011-09-06)This thesis examines the representations of friendship in letters, collaborations, and paratexts from the Renaissance and the Romantic era to uncover the affection behind the performances taught in classical manuals of ... -
And he loved light rather than darkness: Giacomo Leopardi’s Poetics and Pessimism in the Work of Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and A. E. Housman
(2018-12-03)This thesis examines a selection of the work of three Victorian writers: Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and A. E. Housman, in light of their interest in the Romantic-era Italian poet-philosopher Giacomo Leopardi. While often ... -
Political Atheism vs. The Divine Right of Kings: Understanding 'The Fairy of the Lake' (1801)
(2014-05-01)In 'Political Atheism vs. The Divine Right of Kings,' I build on Thompson and Scrivener’s work analysing John Thelwall’s play 'The Fairy of the Lake' as a political allegory, arguing all religious symbolism in 'FL' to ... -
Todas las hadas tienen su lago: Geografàa fantà¡stica de la leyenda literaria en el Romanticismo espaà±ol
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2009)This paper analyzes the fantastic aspect of literary legends produced within Spanish Romanticism which specially focus on geographic motives. Literary legend is a new genre descended from the epic poem, which shares with ...