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A concise companion to the Romantic age / edited by Jon Klancher.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.
- Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- Literature and society--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Literature and society.
- Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age provides new perspectives on the relationships between literature and culture in Britain from 1780 to 1830 Provides original essays from a variety of multi-disciplinary scholars on the Romantic eraIncludes fresh insights into such topics as religious controversy and politics, empire and nationalism, and the relationship of Romanticism to modernist aestheticsRanges across the Romantic era's literary, visual, and non-fictional genres
- Contents:
- List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction Jon Klancher; 1 Transfiguring God: Religion, Revolution, Romanticism Robert M. Maniquis; 2 Romanticism and Empire Saree Makdisi; 3 "Associations Respect[ing] the Past": Enlightenment and Romantic Historicism Anthony Jarrells; 4 Nationalisms in Romantic Britain and Ireland: Culture, Politics, and the Global Miranda Burgess; 5 "With an Industry Incredible": Politics, Writing, and the Public Sphere Paul Keen; 6 Romantic Justice: Law, Literature, and Individuality Mark Schoenfield; 7 Natural History in the Romantic Period Noah Heringman
- 8 Romantic Sciences: British and Continental Thresholds Frederick Burwick9 Consumer Culture: Getting and Spending in the Romantic Age Nicholas Mason; 10 The Romantic-Era Book Trade Lee Erickson; 11 Visual Pleasures, Visionary States: Art, Entertainment, and the Nation Gillen D'Arcy Wood; 12 What's at Stake? Kantian Aesthetics, Romantic and Modern Poetics, Sociopolitical Commitment Robert Kaufman; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612116452
- 9781782682844
- 1782682848
- 9781282116450
- 1282116452
- 9781405197991
- 1405197994
- 9781444308563
- 1444308564
- 9781444308570
- 1444308572
- OCLC:
- 476271863
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