Romantic crowd, the: sympathy, controversy and print culture
Auteur :
Fairclough, Mary
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781107031692
Date de publication :
17 janv. 2013
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
590 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
The instinctive behaviour of crowds is still a mysterious phenomenon. Mary Fairclough discovers that in the Romantic period, writers explained this strange phenomenon using an emotional and medical term, sympathy. Her readings of Hazlitt, De Quincey, Wollstonecraft and others reveal their interest in contemporary political, medical and philosophical discourse.