The Long and Winding Road from Blake to the Beatles
The story of the Beatles begins not with the rock-'n’-roll revolution of the 1950s, but in the Romantic revolution of the 1790s, when age-old notions about literature, politics, education, and social relations changed forever. Tracing the Beatles to their late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century poetic, musical, and philosophic roots, The Long and Winding Road from Blake to the Beatles weaves literary criticism and cultural analysis together to how the Fab Four—in their songs,...
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The story of the Beatles begins not with the rock-'n’-roll revolution of the 1950s, but in the Romantic revolution of the 1790s, when age-old notions about literature, politics, education, and social relations changed forever. Tracing the Beatles to their late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century poetic, musical, and philosophic roots, The Long and Winding Road from Blake to the Beatles weaves literary criticism and cultural analysis together to how the Fab Four—in their songs, personalities, and relations with each other—mirror the themes and history of Anglo-American Romanticism.
Preface viiIntroduction: Why the Beatles? 1The Transatlantic Roots of Rock Romanticism 25The Nowhere Man and Mother Nature's Son: Coleridge/Lennon-Wordsworth/McCartney and the Productivity of Resentment 69George Harrison and Byronic In-Between-ness 99Ringo Starr and the Anxiety of Romantic Childhood 127"What Matters is the System!" The Disappearance of God and the Rise of Conspiracy Theorizing 153Epilogue: A New British Empire 179Notes 203Bibliography 217Index 223
