Resumen de The wildness pleases: The origins of Romanticism
Christopher Thacker eludes the usual categories. He is a Europeanist who gives no allegiance to any European intellectual tradition, an academic who eschews footnotes and adopts a brisk, colloquial style ("dear chevaliers..., how d'you do it? ... the dreary Sartre"), and a garden historian sufficiently versed in literary and intellectual history to attempt a general study oftaste. We approach this account of the eighteenth-century cult of wildness, then, expecting a fresh and original work.
