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THE CRISIS OF LITERATURE IN THE 1790S

Keen Paul

Oprawa:
TWARDA

Wydawca:
Cambridge University Press

Data premiery:
1999-11-28

ISBN:
9780521653251

600,60 PLN
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Opis produktu

An original study of debates in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature.An original study of debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature and the new class of readers produced by the revolution in information and literacy in eighteenthcentury England. Topics debated include the status of the author workingclass activists and radical women authors.An original study of debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature and the new class of readers produced by the revolution in information and literacy in eighteenthcentury England. Topics debated include the status of the author workingclass activists and radical women authors.This book offers an original study of the debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature. Paul Keen shows how these debates were situated at the intersection of the French Revolution and a more gradual revolution in information and literacy reflecting the aspirations of the professional classes in eighteenthcentury England. He shows these movements converging in hostility to a new class of readers whom critics saw as dangerously subject to the effects of seditious writings or the vagaries of literary fashion. The first part of the book concentrates on the dominant arguments about the role of literature and the status of the author: the second shifts its focus to the debates about workingclass activists radical women authors and the Orientalists and examines the growth of a Romantic ideology within this context of political and cultural turmoil.Acknowledgements: Introduction: problems now and then: Part I. Enlightenment: 1. The republic of letters: 2. Men of letters: Part II. Marginalia: Preamble: Swinish multitudes: 3. The poorer sort: 4. Masculine women: 5. Oriental literature: Conclusion: romantic revisions: Notes: Bibliography: Index.As is the book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Romantic notions of print culture and the public sphere and cogently works through the ways in which such assumptions impinged upon and were challenged by the full range of writers seeking recognition within that prevailing cultural fantasy the Republic of Letters. Wordsworth Circle

Data Publikacji: 1999-11-28
Wymiary: 228 mm 152 mm 22 mm 640 gr

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