{"product_id":"30-great-myths-about-the-romantics-9781118843192","title":"30 Great Myths about the Romantics","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrimming with the fascinating eccentricities of a complex and confusing movement whose influences continue to resonate deeply, \u003ci\u003e30 Great Myths About the Romantics\u003c\/i\u003e adds great clarity to what we know - or \u003ci\u003ethink\u003c\/i\u003e we know - about one of the most important periods in literary history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the various misconceptions commonly associated with Romanticism, offering provocative insights that correct and clarify several of the commonly-held myths about the key figures of this era\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCorrects some of the biases and beliefs about the Romantics that have crept into the 21st-century zeitgeist - for example that they were a bunch of drug-addled atheists who believed in free love; that Blake was a madman; and that Wordsworth slept with his sister\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCelebrates several of the mythic objects, characters, and ideas that have passed down from the Romantics into contemporary culture - from Blake's \u003ci\u003eJerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e and Keats's \u003ci\u003eOde on a Grecian Urn\u003c\/i\u003e to the literary genre of the vampire\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eEngagingly written to provide readers with a fun yet scholarly introduction to Romanticism and key writers of the period, applying the most up-to-date scholarship to the series of myths that continue to shape our appreciation of their work\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDuncan Wu\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eRomanticism: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e, 4th edition (WileyBlackwell, 2012), and the author of books about Romanticism, Wordsworth, and Hazlitt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50414762852626,"sku":"9781118843192","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3c547d60-8b25-49b5-a8e9-7c69c9a42520.jpg?v=1729382476","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/30-great-myths-about-the-romantics-9781118843192","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}