The Romantic Agony
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A landmark work of literary and cultural criticism, The Romantic Agony presents a sweeping and deeply erudite examination of the erotic and morbid undercurrents running through 19th-century Romantic literature. Mario Praz masterfully traces the themes of cruelty, pain, and perverse beauty across the work of writers including Byron, Swinburne, Baudelaire, and Flaubert, arguing that these dark sensibilities form a coherent and defining aesthetic movement. With the authority of a scholar steeped in both literature and art history, the work uncovers the obsessive mythologies — the Fatal Woman, the doomed hero, the sanctification of suffering — that haunted the Romantic imagination. This second edition, with a new foreword by Frank Kermode, reaffirms its status as an indispensable text for anyone serious about the history of ideas and Western aesthetics.
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner.
A landmark work of literary and cultural criticism, The Romantic Agony presents a sweeping and deeply erudite examination of the erotic and morbid undercurrents running through 19th-century Romantic literature. Mario Praz masterfully traces the themes of cruelty, pain, and perverse beauty across the work of writers including Byron, Swinburne, Baudelaire, and Flaubert, arguing that these dark sensibilities form a coherent and defining aesthetic movement. With the authority of a scholar steeped in both literature and art history, the work uncovers the obsessive mythologies — the Fatal Woman, the doomed hero, the sanctification of suffering — that haunted the Romantic imagination. This second edition, with a new foreword by Frank Kermode, reaffirms its status as an indispensable text for anyone serious about the history of ideas and Western aesthetics.
