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  • Of course many history books, those written by outsiders for the most part, would go on to paint a picture of Belgium as a unified Romantic-era nation-state.

    A House Long Divided John W. Miller 2011

  • Yet one cannot help comparing its depiction of the Herschels to that in Richard Holmes's recent book about Romantic-era science, "The Age of Wonder."

    A Far-Seeing Family James Kennedy 2011

  • Primarily, my Thesis, ever-looming, on representations of fairies and other supernatural creatures in Romantic-era writing.

    An Interview with Amal El-Mohtar marshallpayne1 2009

  • In the 19th century, Romantic-era painters saw windows as a symbolic threshold between interior and outside worlds and in contrast to older painters like Vermeer often painted what they saw from inside.

    Don't Miss: April 2-8 2011

  • Ashkenazy comes closest to a Romantic-era interpretation in the opening Toccata of the very forward-looking Prelude No. 6.

    On CD: Ashkenazy's Bach 2010

  • Ian Baucom's Specters of the Atlantic (2005) have illuminated present-day concerns by connecting them directly to Romantic-era antecedents, while scrupulously resisting the temptation to connect a series of nineteenth - and twentieth-century dots that would link the two periods under discussion.

    Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault) 2008

  • Among those buried there are Jozef Pilsudski; Romantic-era poet Adam Mickiewicz; Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a hero of the American Revolution and of Poland's 1794 uprising against Russia's occupation; and Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski, the exiled World War II leader who perished in a mysterious plane crash off Gibraltar in 1943.

    Polish Leader Flown To Krakow For Burial By VANESSA GERA 2010

  • Robert Owen, the Romantic-era champion of cooperative industrial communities, as necessary for the transformation of society he imagined.

    Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions 2008

  • Among those buried there are Jozef Pilsudski; Romantic-era poet Adam Mickiewicz; Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a hero of the American Revolution and of Poland's 1794 uprising against Russia's occupation; and Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski, the exiled World War II leader who perished in a mysterious plane crash off Gibraltar in 1943.

    Polish Leader Flown To Krakow For Burial 2010

  • The strong performances on two new releases help explain both Schmidt's onetime popularity and his later decline: His works are very well put together, but they generally do not engage a listener readily – because, despite their grand Romantic-era scale, their emotive capabilities are limited.

    On CD: new Schmidt releases 2010

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