Tag: Romantic

Free Download Hsu-Ming Teo, "Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction "
English | ISBN: 1032801778 | 2024 | 218 pages | EPUB, PDF | 844 KB + 19 MB
Romantic fiction has often involved stories of travel. In narratives of the journey towards love, "romance" often involves encounters with "exotic" places and peoples. When history is invoked in such stories, the past itself is exoticised and treated as "other" to the present to serve the purposes of romanticisation: a narrative strategy by which all manner of things – settings, characters, costumes, customs, consumables – are made to perform a luxuriant otherness that amplifies the experience of love. This volume questions the reparative function of Anglophone romantic historical fiction to ask: can Descriptions of travel and discourses of tourism empower women while narrating stories of healing for the wounds of the past? This is the first volume to consider how romanticised and exoticised women’s historical fiction not only serves the purposes of armchair travel but may also replicate colonial discourse, unintentionally positioning readers as neocolonial, neo-Orientalist cultural voyeurs as well as voyagers.

Free Download Rousseau: Stoic & Romantic By Kennedy F. Roche
2019 | 4616 Pages | ISBN: 0367135183 | EPUB | 1 MB
This collection reissues 17 titles that provide an excellent overview of 18th century philosophy – as well as the debates that surround the topic. Featuring works on Berkeley, Hume, Kant and Rousseau, among others, the collection examines a host of philosophical arguments by the leading thinkers of the time. It is an essential reference collection.

Free Download Owen Ware, "Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy and Literature"
English | ISBN: 0197763960 | 2025 | 280 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Why was mythology of vital importance for the romantics? What role did mythology play in their philosophical and literary work? And what common sources of influence inspired these writers across Britain and Germany at the turn of the nineteenth century?

Free Download Mary A. Favret, "Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters "
English | ISBN: 0521604281 | 2005 | 284 pages | PDF | 16 MB
The literary importance of letters did not end with the demise of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel. In the turbulent period between 1789 and 1830, the letter was used as a vehicle for political rather than sentimental expression. Against a background of severe political censorship, seditious Corresponding Societies, and the rise of the modern Post Office, letters as they are used by Romantic writers, especially women, become the vehicle for a distinctly political, often disruptive force. Mary Favret’s study of Romantic correspondence reexamines traditional accounts of epistolary writing, and redefines the letter as a ‘feminine’ genre. The book deals not only with letters which circulated in the novels of Austen or Mary Shelley, but also with political pamphlets, incendiary letters and spy letters available for public consumption.

Free Download Phyllis Vega, "Lovestrology: Astonishingly Accurate Romantic Profiles and Compatibility Matchups for Every Birthday"
English | 2007 | pages: 506 | ISBN: 1592332358 | PDF | 5,1 mb
Have you ever wondered how your date of birth affects your love life, the unique qualities that define you, and the passions that drive you? Or why everyone seems to be talking about Mars and Venus, and their influence on intimate relationships? In Lovestrology, the author draws on the predictive powers of astrology and the ancient art of numerology to create revealing romantic portraits that provide everything you need to know to enjoy great relationships. The book is divided into two sections. Part One: The 366 Birthdays of the Year gives a comprehensive individual romantic profile for each birth date. Part Two: Men and Women are from Mars and Venus delineates the drives and passions associated with each Mars sign, shows the ways in which you share love and affection via each Venus sign, and provides readings for each of the 144 possible Mars/Venus combinations. The sign connections between the planets of love and passion on your birthdays indicate the compatibility potential between you and your lover. Lovestrology manages to be unfailingly upbeat and positive without sugarcoating the challenges and difficulties symbolized by each of the 366 birthdays and 12 zodiacal signs. This provocative book sheds new light on your prospects for finding and maintaining a successful love relationship.

Free Download James H. Donelan, "Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic"
English | 2008 | pages: 234 | ISBN: 0521887615 | PDF | 0,9 mb
James H. Donelan describes how two poets, a philosopher, and a composer – Hölderlin, Wordsworth, Hegel, and Beethoven – developed an idea of self-consciousness based on music at the turn of the nineteenth century. This idea became an enduring cultural belief: the understanding of music as an ideal representation of the autonomous creative mind. Against a background of political and cultural upheaval, these four major figures – all born in 1770 – developed this idea in both metaphorical and actual musical structures, thereby establishing both the theory and the practice of asserting self-identity in music. Beethoven still carries the image of the heroic composer today; this book describes how it originated in both his music and in how others responded to him. Bringing together the fields of philosophy, musicology, and literary criticism, Donelan shows how this development emerged from the complex changes in European cultural life taking place between 1795 and 1831.

Free Download Derek B Scott, "Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period: Items Published by William West (1836-42)"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1848930291 | PDF | pages: 1936 | 394.7 mb
The songbooks of the 1830-40s were printed in tiny numbers, and small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, passed round or thrown away.

Free Download Noah Heringman, "Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History"
English | 2003 | pages: 296 | ISBN: 079145701X | PDF | 0,8 mb
Although "romantic science" may sound like a paradox, much of the romance surrounding modern science-the mad scientist, the intuitive genius, the utopian transformation of nature-originated in the Romantic period. Romantic Science traces the literary and cultural politics surrounding the formation of the modern scientific disciplines emerging from eighteenth-century natural history. Revealing how scientific concerns were literary concerns in the Romantic period, the contributors uncover the vital role that new discoveries in earth, plant, and animal sciences played in the period’s literary culture. As Thomas Pennant put it in 1772, "Natural History is, at present, the favourite science over all Europe, and the progress which has been made in it will distinguish and characterise the eighteenth century in the annals of literature." As they examine the social and literary ramifications of a particular branch or object of natural history, the contributors to this volume historicize our present intellectual landscape by reimagining and redrawing the disciplinary boundaries between literature and science.

Free Download Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Eva Illouz
English | May 29, 1997 | ISBN: 0520202759, 0520205715 | True EPUB | 332 pages | 5.7 MB
To what extent are our most romantic moments determined by the portrayal of love in film and on TV? Is a walk on a moonlit beach a moment of perfect romance or simply a simulation of the familiar ideal seen again and again on billboards and movie screens?

Free Download The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Audiobook)
English | June 28, 2011 | ASIN: B0058HYHF4 | M4B@64 kbps | 21h 26m | 613 MB
Author: Richard Holmes | Narrator: Gildart Jackson
A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.
When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook on his first Endeavour voyage in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery-astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical-swiftly follow in Richard Holmes’s original evocation of what truly emerges as an Age of Wonder.