Looking At The Word “ROMANTIC” (2)

Words can be presences that inspire and encourage us forward; words can act like a pillory…

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Mary Shelley’S “FRANKENSTEIN”: The Creation Myth Developed By Cultural Marxism.

Between the eighties and nineties I was not much involved with academic life. When I returned…

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“What Is It To Be A Romantic?”: Philosophically Speaking?

We have been looking at Romanticism in general and some aspects of pre-romanticism ( the picturesque,…

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Filming The Alps In Words: Frankenstein

FROM PICTURESQUE TO SUBLIME: MARY SHELLEY “The next day we pursued our journey upon mules; and…

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“Him Who First Described What Picturesque Beauty Was”: Jane Austen And William Gilpin (2)

Marianne’s sensitivity to the beauty of the landscape (see post “Jane Austen and the Picturesque”) shows…

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