Romantic Movement

Percy Bysshe Shelley is considered one of the finest English poets and a major figure in the nineteenth-century Romantic movement. Born in 1792, Shelley was educated at Eton but was expelled from Oxford University for writing a pamphlet on atheism. Shelley married Mary Wollstonecraft (later famous for her novel Frankenstein) and traveled in... 

The revolution dans la maniere de traduire called for by Chateaubriand may partly be attributed to the impact of the Romantic movement, which, in its focus on individuality and original creation gave more importance to the source text, derivative writing receiving less priority.46 In addition, the Romantic taste and search for the new in content and form gave close translation a privileged role as it chal-... 

How are we to understand this critical reversal Is this desire to cleanse the interracial relationship, to mark out a distinction between multiracialism proper and the supposed pollution of a commodified, pornographic pathology not the same chauvinistic reasoning, the same categorical prophylaxis that the multiracial movement and its academic cohort seeks to undermine What are we to make of this effort to throw out the dirty water—the suspect business, the sexuality of the depths— while saving the healthy baby—the valid romantic event, the sexuality of the heights ... 

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