MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009291403
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008 090609s2008 enka b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aPR778.R65$bE78 2008
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100 1 $aEsterhammer, Angela.
245 10 $aRomanticism and improvisation, 1750-1850 /$cAngela Esterhammer.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2008.
300 $axiii, 269 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aCambridge studies in Romanticism ;$v77
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 248-262) and index.
505 0 $a"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.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEuropean fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aRomanticism.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0916/2009291403-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0916/2009291403-t.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0916/2009291403-b.html