Heroes and Hideousness
"Frankenstein" and Failed Unity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4386839 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Tomasek Manson, Michael Manson, Robert Scott Stewart |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2/3 |
| Pages | 228 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3685283 |
| OpenAlex | W2030568278 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
DEFINING ROMANTICISM, whether in the arts or in the sciences, is a perilous exercise, not only because of the wide range of discourses and practices within each of those fields that have been brought under the umbrella of Romanticism, but also because some of those practices vary so greatly from one country to another, that some have argued it is best to speak not of Romanticism, but of Romanticisms.1 Yet, there is a certain irony in this reductionist approach, for whether they are discussing the arts or the sciences, and referring either to England or to Germany, most accounts of Romanticism speak of the attempt to rediscover and/or recreate a state that harks back to a distant past (Biblical, medieval, classical) in which a primal unity existed between human beings, nature and whatever creative force existed outside the individual and between all the human
Art · Epistemology · Irony · Literature · Reductionism · Romanticism · Sociology · State (computer science) · The arts · Visual arts · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 1999 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |