Romanticism and improvisation, 1750-1850 / Angela Esterhammer.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 77Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: xiii, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780521897099
- 0521897092
- 823.709 22
- PR778.R65 E78 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-262) and index.
"This lightning of the mind": improvisation and performance in the Romantic era -- Defining improvisation and improvising national identity: from grand tourists to Della Cruscans -- Importing improvisation: oral performance and print culture in the age of Goethe -- Was Homer an improvvisatore?: histories of improvisation in antiquarian scholarship and popular culture -- The spectacle of the Romantic improviser: Corilla, Corinne, and the British women poets of the 1820s -- Stars of the post-Napoleonic stage: Rosa Taddei, Tommaso Sgricci, and their audiences -- Byron, Hoffman, and the improvisational worlds of Carnival and commedia -- Sociability, social practice, and the Bildungsroman of the 1830s -- The improviser's disorder: adventurers and misfits in nineteenth-century fiction -- Virtuosi, vaudevillians, mystics, madmen, and rhetoricians: improvisational contexts of the nineteenth century -- Afterword: writing the improviser.
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