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Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830
Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature
Av E. Simpson
Inbunden, 2008
634 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 …
Bluestockings
Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism
Av E. Eger
Inbunden, 2010
1259 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 …
Bookish Histories
Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700-1900
Inbunden, 2009
634 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 …
Age of Hypochondria
Interpreting Romantic Health and Illness
Av G. Grinnell
Inbunden, 2010
634 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 …
Romantic Cosmopolitanism
Av E. Wohlgemut
Inbunden, 2009
568 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
Av A. Rudd
Inbunden, 2011
634 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 …
British Historical Fiction before Scott
Av A. Stevens
Inbunden, 2010
634 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 …
Literary History Writing, 1770-1820
Av April London
Inbunden, 2010
634 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 …
Romantic Magazines and Metropolitan Literary Culture
Av D. Stewart
Inbunden, 2011
634 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 …
Eighteenth-Century Vitalism
Bodies, Culture, Politics
Av C. Packham
Inbunden, 2012
634 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, …
Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
Inbunden, 2011
634 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 …
Poetry and Popular Protest
Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy
Av J. Gardner
Inbunden, 2011
634 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 …
Writing Romanticism
Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth, 1784-1807
Av J. Labbe
Inbunden, 2011
634 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 …
Romanticism and Blackwood's Magazine
'An Unprecedented Phenomenon'
Inbunden, 2013
634 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 …
Necromanticism
Traveling to Meet the Dead, 1750-1860
Av P. Westover
Inbunden, 2012
634 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, …
Novel Minds
Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680-1740
Inbunden, 2012
1259 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 …
Politics of Romantic Theatricality, 1787-1832
The Road to the Stage
Av D. Worrall
Inbunden, 2007
634 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 …
Family Authorship and Romantic Print Culture
Av M. Levy
Inbunden, 2008
634 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 …
Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2009
634 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' …
Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England
Literature, Commerce and Luxury
Av E. Clery
Inbunden, 2004
1259 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 …
Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England
Literature, Commerce and Luxury
Av E. Clery
Häftad, 2004
1385 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 …
Bluestockings
Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism
Av E. Eger
Häftad, 2010
1259 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 …
Romantic Misfits
Av R. Miles
Häftad, 2008
678 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 …
Britain's Bloodless Revolutions
1688 and the Romantic Reform of Literature
Av A. Jarrells
Häftad, 2005
634 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 …
Creating Romanticism
Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s
Av S. Ruston
Inbunden, 2013
634 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
Av M. Pittock
Inbunden, 2013
1385 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 …
Romanticism and the Gold Standard
Money, Literature, and Economic Debate in Britain 1790-1830
Av A. Dick
Inbunden, 2013
634 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 …
Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature
The Politics of Private Virtue in the Age of Walpole
Av Emrys Jones
Inbunden, 2013
634 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 …
Romantic Hellenism and Women Writers
Av N. Comet
Inbunden, 2013
634 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 …
Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism, 1790-1837
Inbunden, 2013
634 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 …
