Dialectics of Improvement

Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831

AvGerard Lee McKeever

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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This book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish context. With chapter case studies covering poetry, short fiction, drama and the novel, it examines a range of key writers: Robert Burns, James Hogg, Walter Scott, Joanna Baillie and John Galt. Improvement, as the book explores, provided a dominant theme for literary texts in this period, just as it saturated the wider culture. It was also of real consequence to questions about what literature is and what it can do: a medium of secular belonging, a vehicle of indefinite exchange, an educational tool or a theoretical guide to history.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-03-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt:498 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474441674
Utmärkelser:Winner of British Association of Romantic Studies First Book Prize 2021

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Gerard Lee McKeever is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow.

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Dialectics of Improvement is a wonderfully insightful study of the interrelated currents of Enlightenment and Romanticism in Scottish literature. Covering commercial, religious, technological, aesthetic, moral, political, educational and scientific "improvement", it reveals how contested this concept was and how important it continues to be for our understanding of the period.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1. Robert Burns and ‘Circling Time’2. Short Fictions of Improvement by James Hogg and Walter Scott3. ‘The Great Moral Object’ in Joanna Baillie’s Drama4. The Story of John Galt’s Scottish NovelsCoda: ‘There is no end to machinery’Bibliography