Romanticism and Its Discontents

by Anita Brookner

2000 198 pages eng

"Anita Brookner traces how French Romanticism followed the political turmoil of the late eighteenth century and the defeat at Waterloo in 1815, and replaced the agnosticism of the Enlightenment and the Revolution with a new heroism. Examining the works of Delacroix, Ingres and Gros, the Brothers Go…