Bøger om Romantikken

Seeing Opera Anew offers a "stereo" perspective to opera, adding insights from the sciences closely related to human life, including evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience. It has a novel approach, and a "cultural and biological perspective."

El ferí de Benastepar by Spanish writer José Miguel Hué y Camacho (1803-1841) relates the doomed romance between Castilian lady Elvira de Castro and the eponymous ferí de Benastepar, Abenamet.

Um 1850 erreichte der Bach-Kult in Frankreich einen ersten Höhepunkt, der sich seit Beginn des Jahrhunderts ausgebreitet hatte. Auch der damals noch weitgehend unbekannte Charles Gounod setzte sich intensiv mit den Werken Bachs auseinander und studierte Choräle und Motetten ebenso wie die Präludien und Fugen aus dem Wohltemperierten Klavier. Bei einer privaten Vorführung 1852 soll er zu den berühmten Akkordbrechungen des C-dur-Präludiums BWV 846 eine ausdrucksvolle, kantable Melodie improvisiert haben, die später durch die Textierung mit "Ave Maria" weltberühmt werden sollte. Im Druck erschienen 1853 aber zunächst mehrere Instrumentalfassungen dieser Bearbeitung, darunter auch eine für Klavier solo von Gounod selbst, die hier erstmals als Urtext-Edition vorgelegt wird.

Gounod kannte keine Scheu, bekannte Werke früherer Meister auf seine ganz eigene Art einzurichten. So ergänzte er 1852 zu den berühmten Akkordbrechungen des C-dur-Präludiums BWV 846 aus Bachs Wohltemperiertem Klavier eine auf opernhafte Steigerung angelegte Melodie. Die zunächst als Méditation veröffentlichten Instrumentalfassungen wurden nacheinander mit unterschiedlichen Textierungen erprobt, bis sich 1859 mit "Ave Maria" die definitive Vokalfassung ergab. Bereits in den 1890er-Jahren hieß es, man habe "diese süße Melodie von den besten Sängerinnen unzählige Male gehört". Diese Popularität hält bis heute an - Grund genug, diesen Welterfolg auch auf Basis der Quellen ediert und kommentiert im Urtext des Henle Verlags vorzulegen.

"In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen empires, sinking islands, and dying stars to the making and unmaking of populations in Frankenstein and The Last Man. These works intersected with and enclosed reflections upon brewing political changes. By imagining political dynasties, slavery, parliament, and English law reaching an end, writers challenged liberal visions of the political future that viewed the basis of governance as permanently settled. The prospect of volcanic eruptions and biblical deluges, meanwhile, pointed towards new political worlds, forged in the ruins of this one. These visions of coming to an end acquire added resonance in our own time, as political and planetary end-times converge once again. John Owen Havard is Assistant Professor of English at Binghamton University. He is the author of Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760-1830 (2019). His articles and essays on the Byron circle, party politics, political emotion, and the future of democracy have appeared in ELH, Nineteenth-Century Literature, The Byron Journal, The New Rambler and Public Books"--

As a symbol of both progressive and retrograde versions of femininity, Designing Women establishes the dressing room trope in eighteenth-century literature as redefining the gendered constitution of private spaces, and offers a corrective to our literary history of generic influence and development between satire and the novel.

The most substantial exploration to date of gothic fiction in the international context Examining texts from across six continents, The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic considers how gothic imagines, colludes with or interrogates relationships and phenomena that are planetary in scale. Accordingly, the thirty-one chapters address gothic engagements with - among others - resource imperialism, (ongoing) colonial history, diasporic identity, buckling economic unions, the rise of the internet, enthnonationalism and entangled systems of gendered, racialised and ecocidal power. In this way, the collection moves decisively beyond the framework of globalisation to identify a range of new globalgothic approaches and modes, overall demonstrating that gothic is a key - though sometimes complicit - register for negotiating the challenges and histories of our uneven global present. Rebecca Duncan is Research Fellow at the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, where she co-ordinates the 'Aesthetics of Empire' Research Cluster.

The Smallpox Report explores the Romantic-era medical and literary narratives that made vaccination plausible, available, and desirable.

Teaching Music History with Cases introduces a pedagogical approach to music history instruction in university coursework.What constitutes a music-historical "case?" How do we use them in the classroom? In business and the hard sciences, cases are problems that need solutions. In a field like music history, a case is not always a problem, but often an exploration of a context or concept that inspires deep inquiry. Such cases are narratives of rich, complex moments in music history that inspire questions of similar or related moments. This book guides instructors through the process of designing a curriculum based on case studies, finding and writing case studies, and guiding class discussions of cases.

Memory in German Romanticism treats memory as a core element in the production and reception of German art and literature of the Romantic era.

The second Annual of the International Heyer Society!COLLECTING IN ONE VOLUME: #7 - Helen#8 - The Masqueraders#9 - Pastel#10 - Beauvallet#11 - Barren Corn#12 - The Conqueror#13 - Footsteps in the Dark#14 - Devil's Cub# 15 - Why Shoot a Butler?#16 - The Convenient Marriage#17 - The Unfinished Clue#18 - Death in the StocksPlus the Weekly Post, Vol. II, with essays discussing everything from Heyer's houses to the the translated editions of her novels to Belinda's purple gown, and much, much more.Join Society Patronesses Rachel Hyland, Jennifer Kloester and Susannah Fullerton, along with some special guest contributors, in this joyous tribute to the incomparable Georgette Heyer.

Discover Rachel Ashwell's floral inspirations and the unique touch she brings to interiors in her first book dedicated to flowers, a deeply-held passion come to life.

This beautifully illustrated book, with over 300 colour illustrations, showcases masterpieces of 19th century Orientalist art with work by Delacroix, Decamps, Berche`re, Bridgman, Ziem, Ge¿ro^me, Corrodi, Dinet, Matisse, Majorelle and many others. Text in English and French.