This ambitious study, first published in 1999, argues that our conception of the aesthetic sphere emerged during the era of British and German Romanticism from

This book suggests that modern cultural and critical institutions have persistently associated questions of aesthetics and politics with literature, theory, tec

British State Romanticism contends that changing definitions of state power in the late Romantic period propelled authors to revisit the work of literature as w

Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century proceeds from the conviction that it is high time for the academy in general and schola

Carl Dahlhaus here treats Nietzsche's youthful analysis of the contradictions in Wagner's doctrine (and, more generally, in romantic musical aesthetics); the qu