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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"romantic era"”.
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Romantic-Era Periodicals and the Rise of Population
<p>This study explores the convergence of two Romantic-era phenomena: the hotly contested public debate occasioned by the publication of T. R. Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) and the rise of the periodical press in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. My goal for this …
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Appropriations of the Gothic by Romantic-era women writers
… out to examine the multifarious ways in which Romantic-era women writers appropriated the Gothic for genres other than the novel, and to explore the implications of these appropriations. I look at different manifestations of the Gothic written by women in non-novelistic texts –– such as drama, …
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Romanticizing Tuberculosis: Poetry, Prose, Opera, and Society of the Romantic Era
The Romantic Era peaked from 1800 through 1850. This era saw an increased emphasis on individualism and the self, and a growing sense of nationalism. The works of the period relied on sensory description, using romance to cloud otherwise bleak situations. For society, consumption was linked to …
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Writing Home: Depictions of Forced Displacement in Romantic Era and Contemporary Poetry
In Romantic Migrations: Local, National, and Transnational Dispositions, Michael Wiley argues that it was during the Romantic era that ‘the concept of migration acquired the complex semantic and ideological range familiar to the twenty-first century’. This dissertation builds on Wiley’s insight to …
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The New Feminine Rhetoric: Wollstonecraft, Austen, and the Forms of Romantic-Era Feminism
… feminism remained prominent in both the literature and rhetoric of the time. In tracing the development of the "New Rhetoric," a rhetorical movement that aimed to accommodate new principles of the Enlightenment, I focus in part on the rhetorical battle between Edmund Burke, with his …
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MUSIC OF THE BRITISH ISLES: AN EXPLORATION OF MUSIC WRITTEN FOR THE VIOLIN BY COMPOSERS FROM ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND DURING THE ROMANTIC ERA
… from England, Ireland, and Scotland during the Romantic era. The specific composers represented here include Ethel Smyth, Edward Elgar, Michele Esposito, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Charles Villiers Stanford, Ina Boyle, John B. McEwen, Alexander Mackenzie, and Alfred Moffat. …
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The French Organ Toccata from 1874 to 1934
… organ music in the toccata idiom from the French Romantic era. Chapter one gives an insight into the historical background leading into this period of music while chapter two traces the development of the toccata as a musical form. Chapter three contains the main body of the thesis; here is a …
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Romantic Ideals in Contemporary Folk Music
… that modern music is seeing a revival in the Romantic Era and Transcendentalist ideals and philosophy. The works and philosophy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), William Wordsworth (1770-1850), John Keats (1795-1821), as well as Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Ralph Waldo Emerson …
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The influence of J.S. Bach's contrapuntal style in the 'Well-tempered clavier' on selected piano fugues by Romantic composers
… Clavier, and fugues for the piano by selected Romantic composers. The research involves a preliminary investigation into the decline of Bach's music in the Classical era and the resurgence thereof in the Romantic era.
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"Our skins sing in complementary keys": Literary Crip Kinship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Geraldine, Fanny Burney, and Audre Lorde
… I have been reading and writing about literary depictions of breast cancer and disfigured breasts, forging what I have experienced as a literary crip kinship with Audre Lorde, Fanny Burney, and, surprisingly, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Geraldine. These literary figures, and my own …
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Laura Netzel's Works for the Flute: New Editions with Historical Context
Romantic-era composer Laura Netzel ranked among the most-performed Swedish female composers during her lifetime but is now all but forgotten by scholars and performers. This dissertation examines how Netzel’s social class, gender, choice of instrumentation, and choice of compositional genres …
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Angelic Wasting: The Impacts of the Enlightenment, Evangelicalism, and the Industrial Revolution on Romanticization of Tuberculosis in England, 1800-1850
… between the portrayal of tuberculosis in the Romantic era and the Enlightenment, evangelism, and the Industrial Revolution. This study aims to do so by locating and analyzing depictions in the primary source representations of the disease, then considering the effects of the three factors …
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An Examination of Selected Opera-Comiques of Adrien Boieldieu (France)
During his lifetime the opera-comiques of Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834) were regarded as the finest and most successful examples of the genre. Boieldieu's new productions were eagerly awaited by public and musicians alike and were frequently revived in subsequent years. The most famous singers of …
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The artist as sacrificial in Schopenhauer's philosophy
… the role of “the artist” qua artist for Romantic Era Germans more broadly and for Schopenhauer more narrowly. In the final section, I utilize these earlier explorations to show that the artist is indeed a sacrificial figure in Schopenhauer’s work. Regardless of the fact that Schopenhauer …
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Object lessons: technologies of education in British literature, 1762-1851
… to our understanding of self-development in literature, Object Lessons: Technologies of Education in British Literature: 1762-1851, examines Romantic-era and Victorian writers who represent education as an embodied experience, with learning and literacy grounded in what they called “object …
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The Evolution of Viola Playing as Heard in Recordings of William Walton's Viola Concerto
… style of performance practice with roots in the Romantic era, which emphasized the individuality of the performer above other considerations. Hallmarks of this style are tonal beauty, overt emotionalism and a freely subjective approach that included alterations to the music. The performers used …
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A Survey of the History of the Concertmaster Through the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic Eras
… orchestra throughout the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras and studies the examples of exceptional concertmasters from each era, giving further historical insight into the lives and duties in of these orchestral leaders and musicians. During the Baroque era, when ensembles lacked conductors, …
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Consequential ground: Memorials of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Romantic culture 1793-1877
… the failures to remember, the ambivalent erasures of war, and the anti-heroic memorial culture that thrived in politically progressive circles during and after the wars. Although one legacy of the wars is a patriotic myth of England’s martial preparedness embodied in monuments to the likes …
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Mouvoir dans l'espace: une esthétique musico-poétique chez Debussy et Mallarmé
… in artistic life, and certain figures of the era argued for its superiority over poetry. Richard Wagner convinced many artists of the time of the need to subsume poetry into music for the sake of creating a Gesamtkunstwerk, or a total work of art. The result of this dialogue can best be …
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