'EVER since then,'wrote Mr Logan Pearsall Smith in his essa Four Romantic Words,'the
history of art has been the history of scious and violent revolutions and reactions, instead of …

A quarter of a century ago, Romanticism was under attack in France and in Great Britain.
The papers then read before this Association reflected the trend of criticism in the first …

THIS PAPER is written with a purpose and probably with a partiality which stems from a
deep-seated conviction: that, of all the eras of French literature (and perhaps of other …

Modern scholarship has steadily contributed much to the understanding of one of the most
complex movements of French literature, romanticism. Although, at present, the number of …

When they want to be apocalyptic, or simply have nothing more to say, people have often
asserted in recent decades that literary history-like the novel, Kultur, man, and God-is dead …

Jean Giraud, in L'Ecole Romantique Francaise (Paris, 1927; p. 3), defines it as a" new
renaissance, a spasm of sincerity on the part of artists and public, a transformation of …

BN (1968), xxvii+ 212 pp., includes some 660 notices and is rev. R. Lebegue in RHLF, 70:
135-6,(Euvres romanesques et voyages, texte etabli presente et annote par M. Regard …

For more than a century scholars and critics have argued over French romanticism.
Quantities of ink have flowed in an endless series of analyses of trends, themes, and more …

Abstract Preceded by the American Revolution, and to some extent inspired by it, the French
Revolution was an epoch-making upheaval by which, in the last decade of the eighteenth …