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Historicizing French Romanticism
Author(s) -
Prasad Pratima
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00083.x
Subject(s) - romanticism , historicism , scholarship , empire , colonialism , romance , literature , field (mathematics) , art , history , aesthetics , political science , ancient history , law , archaeology , mathematics , pure mathematics
Recent scholarship has brought in a renewed historicism to French Romantic studies by examining the ways in which the aesthetic work of Romanticism is implicated in the history of the French Revolution and of the French colonial empire. My essay discusses some of these studies and their impact on the field.