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.


About the Author

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).

Book Information
ISBN 9783030976248
Author James Rovira
Format Paperback
Page Count 298
Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG