Eighteen Hundred and Eleven

Poetry, Protest and Economic Crisis

AvE. J. Clery

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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In 1811 England was on the brink of economic collapse and revolution. The veteran poet and campaigner Anna Letitia Barbauld published a prophecy of the British nation reduced to ruins by its refusal to end the interminable war with France, titled Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. Combining ground-breaking historical research with incisive textual analysis, this new study dispels the myth surrounding the hostile reception of the poem and takes a striking episode in Romantic-era culture as the basis for exploring poetry as a medium of political protest. Clery examines the issues at stake, from the nature of patriotism to the threat to public credit, and throws new light on the views and activities of a wide range of writers, including radical, loyalist and dissenting journalists, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, and Barbauld herself. Putting a woman writer at the centre of the enquiry opens up a revised perspective on the politics of Romanticism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-06-09
Mått:160 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt:610 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Antal sidor:326
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107189225

Utforska kategorier

Politisk aktivism inom Samhälle och politik
Finanskriser inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

E. J. Clery is professor of English Literature at the University of Southampton. Her publications include The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800 (Cambridge, 1995), Women's Gothic from Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley (2000), The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England (2004) and Jane Austen: The Banker's Daughter (2017). In 2013 she was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Fellowship for the project 'Romantic-Era Women Writers and Economic Debate'. She lectures and broadcasts on eighteenth-century and Romantic literature, book history and the cultural history of economics.

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'Clery's subject is Anna Letitia Barbauld's poem 'Eighteen Hundred and Eleven', published in February 1812 as an attack on the British government's policies, particularly, according to Clery, the Orders in Council of 1807 limiting trade. … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' J. Rosenblum, Choice

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: the puzzle and the myth; Part I. The Making of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: 1. Economic warfare; 2. Writing for the enemy; 3. Commercial dissent; 4. Stoic patriotism; 5. The prophet motive; 6. Ruin: doing the policy in different voices; 7. Lady credit; Part II. What Happened Next: 8. Publication to vindication: a chronology; 9. The summer of 1812 and after; Conclusion.