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Article: A Companion to European Romanticism.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2007
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A Companion to European Romanticism. Ed. by MICHAEL FERBER. (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, 38) Oxford: Blackwell. 2005. xiv+586 pp. 85 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4051-1039-6.
Attempts to confine definitions of the various European schools of Romanticism to their national boundaries are notoriously fraught with difficulty. Indeed, the very usage of the term 'school' to define any group of writers active during the period is likely to provoke disquiet as experts rush to highlight the complexities of the age. It is partly due to the inherently international, interdisciplinary nature of Romantic thought, art, and literature that such difficulties ...