Poe and the Idea of Music: Failure, Transcendence, and Dark Romanticism 1611462053, 9781611462050

Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature 9781442679467

Oerlemans extends current eco-critical views by synthesizing a range of viewpoints from the Romantic period.

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Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation 9781399511278

Confronts the racial and ethnic logics of the Oriental subject undergirding the development of Romantic poetics Demonstr

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Intimate music: a history of the idea of chamber music 9781576471005, 9781576470183

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Borges's Poe: The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America 0820349054, 9780820349053

Edgar Allan Poe's image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the

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Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead 9781478024972, 9781478020349, 9781478027324

Michael Kaler demonstrates that the Grateful Dead developed a radical new way of playing rock music as a means to unleas

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Music and Altered States: Consciousness, Transcendence, Therapy and Addictions 9781843103738, 9781843107712, 9781849050197, 9781853024443, 9781843104841, 9781849050128, 1843103737

This international collection examines the opportunities for using music-induced states of altered consciousness to prom

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Murder, Mayhem and Music Hall: The Dark Side of Victorian London 9780755694631, 9781780766348

The Strand is one of London–s most iconic streets – today the bustling and thriving home of West End theatres and the lu

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Thomas De Quincey, Dark Interpreter: Romanticism in Translation 9781474483919

Thomas De Quincey’s multivalent engagement with Romantic translation Offers new perspectives on De Quincey’s most celebr

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History and the Idea of Progress 9781501744679

Additional essays examine the historical and philosophical origins of the idea of history that lies behind today's

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Leibniz and the Invention of Mathematical Transcendence 3515120823, 9783515120821

The invention of mathematical transcendence in the seventeenth century is linked to Leibniz, who always claimed it to be

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