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Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

byAndrea Wulf

Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels investigates the first romantics and the invention of the self, grounding a large subject in the people and choices that shaped it. Using biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, Magnificent Rebels moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing Magnificent Rebels within biography & autobiography and history, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment. Magnificent Rebels emphasizes the specific circumstances that made this story possible and the consequences that followed.

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780525657118