David Bowie and Romanticism

David Bowie and Romanticismevaluates Bowie's music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets, novelists, and artists.These chaptersexpand 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 collectionusesthe conceptual apparata and historical insights provided by the study of Romanticismto provide insight into identity formation, drawing from Romantic theories of self to understand Bowie's oeuvre and periods of his career. Thechapters discuss keythemes in Bowie's work and analyze what Bowie has to teach us aboutRomantic art and literatureas well.