Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print – serie

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Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830
Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature
AvE. Simpson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
628 kr
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This book argues that Romantic-era writers used the figure of the minstrel to imagine authorship as a social, responsive enterprise unlike the solitary process portrayed by Romantic myths of the lone genius. Simpson highlights the centrality of the minstrel to many important literary developments from the Romantic era through to the 1840s.
Bluestockings
Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism
AvE. Eger
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
1 249 kr
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This studyargues that female networks of conversation, correspondenceand patronage formed the foundation for women's work in the 'higher' realms of Shakespeare criticism and poetry. Eger traces the transition between Enlightenment and Romantic culture, arguing for the relevance of rational argument in the history of women's writing.
Bookish Histories
Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700-1900
AvI. Ferris,P. Keen
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
628 kr
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This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new 'bookish' literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries.
Age of Hypochondria
Interpreting Romantic Health and Illness
AvG. Grinnell
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
628 kr
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Examining the ways in which hypochondria forms both a malady and a metaphor for a range of British Romantic writers, Grinnell contends that this is not one illness amongst many, but a disorder of the very ability to distinguish between illness and health, a malady of interpretation that mediates a broad spectrum of pressing cultural questions.
Romantic Cosmopolitanism
AvE. Wohlgemut
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
563 kr
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Romantic Cosmopolitanism shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation that stands in contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke's which found nationality in, among other things, language, history, blood and geography.
Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830
AvA. Rudd
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
628 kr
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India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain.
British Historical Fiction before Scott
AvA. Stevens
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
628 kr
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In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley , dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitation and experimentation.
Literary History Writing, 1770-1820
AvApril London
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
628 kr
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This investigation of literary history writing between 1770 and 1820 identifies the mode's distinction from canon formation as central to its cultural vitality. Using secret history, memoir and the novel, amongst other sources, it invites a re-thinking of literary history's place in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print culture.
Romantic Magazines and Metropolitan Literary Culture
AvD. Stewart
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
628 kr
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The decade after 1815 was a period of cultural instability, in which literature was redefined in response to a mass readership. Magazines were a product of and response to a culture that was metropolitan in size and heterogeneity. This book analyses a literary genre that made creative use of a cultural confusion which elsewhere provoked anxiety.
Eighteenth-Century Vitalism
Bodies, Culture, Politics
AvC. Packham
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
628 kr
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This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s.
Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
AvJessica Richard
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
628 kr
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Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and novels that interrogate the new socio-economy of long odds and lucky breaks.
Poetry and Popular Protest
Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy
AvJ. Gardner
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
628 kr
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This book provides provocative information on poetry written in response to the most revolutionary set of events seen in Britain since the 1640s: 'Peterloo', a peaceful protest that became a massacre; 'Cato Street', a government scripted rebellion; and the 'Queen Caroline Controversy', when the estranged wife of George IV tried to claim her crown.
Writing Romanticism
Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth, 1784-1807
AvJ. Labbe
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
628 kr
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What is 'Wordsworthian' Romanticism and how did it evolve? This book argues that only by reading Charlotte Smith's poetry in tandem with William Wordsworth's can this question be answered, demonstrating their mutual contribution to the creation of the 'Wordsworthian', through literary analysis and historical contextualizing of their writings.
Romanticism and Blackwood's Magazine
'An Unprecedented Phenomenon'
AvR. Morrison,D. Roberts
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
628 kr
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This collection of essays throws vast new light on the most significant literary-political journal of the Romantic age. Its chapters analyze Blackwood's wide-ranging contributions on some of the most topical issues in Romantic studies, including celebrity, British versus Scottish nationalism, and the rise of terror and detective fiction.
Necromanticism
Traveling to Meet the Dead, 1750-1860
AvP. Westover
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
628 kr
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Necromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers' compulsion to visit literary homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period. The book draws on the histories of tourism and literary genres to highlight Romanticism's recourse to the dead in its reading, writing, and canon-making practices.
Novel Minds
Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680-1740
AvR. Tierney-Hynes
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 249 kr
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Eighteenth-century philosophy owes much to the early novel. Using the figure of the romance reader this book tells a new story of eighteenth-century reading. The impressionable mind and mutable identity of the romance reader haunt eighteenth-century definitions of the self, and the seductions of fiction insist on making an appearance in philosophy.
Politics of Romantic Theatricality, 1787-1832
The Road to the Stage
AvD. Worrall
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
628 kr
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This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene.
Family Authorship and Romantic Print Culture
AvM. Levy
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
628 kr
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This book explores the conjunction of authorship and family life as a distinctive cultural formation of Romantic-era Britain. It traces an alternative history of Romantic authorship, one that lies on the cusp between a vanishing manuscript culture and the dominance of print, grappling with an evolving tension between the private and public spheres.
Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England
AvNicola Parsons
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
628 kr
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This book analyzes the relation between print cultures and eighteenth-century literary and political practices and, identifying Queen Anne's England as a crucial moment in the public life of gossip, offers readings of key texts that demonstrate how gossip's interpretative strategies shaped readers' participation in the literary and public spheres.
Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England
Literature, Commerce and Luxury
AvE. Clery
Inbunden, Engelska, 2004
1 249 kr
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In the Eighteenth-century, critics of capitalism denounced the growth of luxury and effeminacy; supporters applauded the increase of refinement and the improved status of women. This pioneering study explores the way the association of commerce and femininity permeated cultural production. It looks at the first use of a female author as an icon of modernity in the Athenian Mercury , and reappraises works by Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Mandeville, Defoe, Pope and Elizabeth Carter. Samuel Richardson's novels represent the culmination of the English debate, while contemporary essays by David Hume move towards a fully-fledged enlightenment theory of feminization.
Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England
Literature, Commerce and Luxury
AvE. Clery
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 373 kr
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In the Eighteenth-century, critics of capitalism denounced the growth of luxury and effeminacy; supporters applauded the increase of refinement and the improved status of women. This pioneering study explores the way the association of commerce and femininity permeated cultural production. It looks at the first use of a female author as an icon of modernity in the Athenian Mercury , and reappraises works by Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Mandeville, Defoe, Pope and Elizabeth Carter. Samuel Richardson's novels represent the culmination of the English debate, while contemporary essays by David Hume move towards a fully-fledged enlightenment theory of feminization.
Bluestockings
Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism
AvE. Eger
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
1 249 kr
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This studyargues that female networks of conversation, correspondenceand patronage formed the foundation for women's work in the 'higher' realms of Shakespeare criticism and poetry. Eger traces the transition between Enlightenment and Romantic culture, arguing for the relevance of rational argument in the history of women's writing.
Romantic Misfits
AvR. Miles
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
671 kr
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This book explores the false starts and disturbances of Romantic writing in Britain - 'misfits' and misfittings - as both a constitutive challenge to canonical romanticism and a distinctive literary field worth examining on its own account. Misfits include the Shakespeare forger W.H. Ireland, the novel itself, and the culture of Dissent.
Britain's Bloodless Revolutions
1688 and the Romantic Reform of Literature
AvA. Jarrells
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
628 kr
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Britain's Bloodless Revolutions explores the relationship of the emerging category of Literature to the emerging threat of popular violence between the Bloodless Revolution and the Romantic turn from revolution to reform. The book argues that at a time when the political nature of the Bloodless Revolution became a subject of debate - in the period defined by France's famously bloody revolution - 'Literature' emerged as a kind of political institution and constituted a bloodless revolution in its own right.
Creating Romanticism
Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s
AvS. Ruston
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
628 kr
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This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific and medical ideas that helped shape some of the key concepts of the period, such as natural rights, the creative imagination and the sublime.
Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760
Treacherous Objects, Secret Places
AvM. Pittock
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 373 kr
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Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760 is a groundbreaking study of the ways in which material culture (and its associated designs, rituals and symbols) was used to avoid prosecution for treason and sedition in the British Isles. The fresh theoretical model it presents challenges existing accounts of the public sphere and consumer culture.
Romanticism and the Gold Standard
Money, Literature, and Economic Debate in Britain 1790-1830
AvA. Dick
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
628 kr
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Through a close analysis of the pamphlets, reviews, lectures, journalism, editorials, poems, and novels surrounding the introduction of the gold standard in 1816, this book examines the significance of monetary policy and economic debate to the culture and literature of Britain during the age of Romanticism.
Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature
The Politics of Private Virtue in the Age of Walpole
AvEmrys Jones
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
628 kr
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Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue.
Romantic Hellenism and Women Writers
AvN. Comet
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
628 kr
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Examining popular contexts of Greek revivalism associated with women, Comet challenges the masculine narrative of English Classicism by demonstrating that it thrived in non-male spaces, as an ephemeral ideal that betrayed a distrust of democratic rhetoric that ignored the social inequities of the classical world.
Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism, 1790-1837
AvKatey Castellano
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
628 kr
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Analyzing Romantic conservative critiques of modernity found in literature, philosophy, natural history, and agricultural periodicals, this book finds a common theme in the 'intergenerational imagination.' This impels an environmental ethic in which obligations to past and future generations shape decisions about inherited culture and land.

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print – serie

Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830

Bluestockings

Bookish Histories

Age of Hypochondria

Romantic Cosmopolitanism

Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830

British Historical Fiction before Scott

Literary History Writing, 1770-1820

Romantic Magazines and Metropolitan Literary Culture

Eighteenth-Century Vitalism

Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

Poetry and Popular Protest

Writing Romanticism

Romanticism and Blackwood's Magazine

Necromanticism

Novel Minds

Politics of Romantic Theatricality, 1787-1832

Family Authorship and Romantic Print Culture

Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England

Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England

Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England

Bluestockings

Romantic Misfits

Britain's Bloodless Revolutions

Creating Romanticism

Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760

Romanticism and the Gold Standard

Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Romantic Hellenism and Women Writers

Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism, 1790-1837