The Romantic Revolution

The Romantic Revolution by Tim Blanning

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.

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 * GOOD BOOK GUIDE *

Tim Blanning is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy. He has been described by THE SUNDAY TIMES as 'a long-time Cambridge academic who can make even the most arcane subject thrum with interest'. He lives in Cambridge.

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ISBN 13	9780753828656
ISBN 10	0753828650
Title	The Romantic Revolution
Author	Tim Blanning
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2011-10-27
Number of pages	256
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