Modernist Eroticisms European Literature After Sexology

Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles.

Memory and culture are terms which are now fashionable, if not over-used, but they need careful handling.

Looking at a broad spectrum of writers–English, French, German, Italian, Russian and other East Europeans–Virgil Nemoianu offers here a coherent characterization of the period 1815-1848. This he calls the era of the domestication of romanticism.