Overview
- Provides a comprehensive assessment of Bowie’s career and cultural contribution
- Builds on previous scholarship linking Romanticism and rock music
- Employs theories of identity, gender, and selfhood
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature (PASTMULI)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
David Bowie and Romanticism evaluates Bowie’s music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets, novelists, and artists. These chapters expand our understanding of both the literature studied as well as Bowie’s music, exploring the boundaries of reason and imagination, and of identity, gender, and genre. This collection uses the conceptual apparata and historical insights provided by the study of Romanticism to provide insight into identity formation, drawing from Romantic theories of self to understand Bowie’s oeuvre and periods of his career. The chapters discuss key themes in Bowie’s work and analyze what Bowie has to teach us about Romantic art and literature as well.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
James Rovira is a freelance writer, scholar, and poet who currently teaches at Valencia College and Keiser University. His books include Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History (2019), Reading for College and Beyond (Lulu 2019, a first year writing text), Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 (2018), and Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety (2010).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: David Bowie and Romanticism
Editors: James Rovira
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97622-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97621-7Published: 23 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97624-8Published: 24 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97622-4Published: 22 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-5133
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5141
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 298
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Music, Performing Arts