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Book Synopsis"The introductory essay is superb, the best short introduction to Romanticism I know. It is comprehensive, covering both the wide range of spheres that Romanticism affected--literature, philosophy, art, music, politics, nationalism--and the broad spectrum of European countries in which it was an influential cultural current. It offers a distinctive, unified interpretation of Romanticism that nonetheless does justice to the complexities of Romantic ideas." --Gerald Izenberg, Washington University in St. Louis
Trade Review"The complexity and range of European Romanticism cannot be conveyed to students by assigning only one or two texts; at the same time, students need a clear and confident guide if they are not going to become lost in a maze of texts and interpretations. Breckman's book meets these competing demands. His Introduction, in particular, provides one of the clearest and most coherent accounts of Romanticism that I have ever read, one that is informed by recent trends in literary criticism and philosophy but that keeps its focus firmly on the Romantics themselves." --George Williamson, University of Alabama
