Print and performance in the 1820s : improvisation, speculation, identity / Angela Esterhammer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Esterhammer, Angela, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 127.

Cambridge studies in romanticism ; 127

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Literature publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature publishing.

Great Britain.

History.

Authors and publishers--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Authors and publishers.

Authors and readers--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Authors and readers.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Intellectual life.

Literary form--History--19th century.

Literary form.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"In 1824, the anonymous narrator of a book entitled Revelations of the Dead-Alive claims to have travelled two hundred years into the future to experience life in London during the year 2023. He relates what he learned from conversations with twenty-first-century writers, artists, and scientists, and from his research in the twenty-first-century British Library, about how the history of his own century was recorded. Satirizing the literature, theatre, art, science, politics, and fashions of 1820s Britain from the imagined vantage point of 2023, Revelations speculates about a possible future. This bizarre text by Irish novelist and journalist John Banim at once describes and performs many of the distinctive features of the milieu from which it arose. Banim surveys the metropolitan landscape of 1820s London, with its intertwined industries of theatre and publishing. He identifies technological innovation and financial speculation as preeminent trends of his time, and he finds the transatlantic speculations of the 1820s mirrored in the imagined world of 2023 by "cargoes of speculators" who emigrate by "balloon-ship" to establish colonies on the moon"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Esterhammer, Angela, 1961- Print and performance in the 1820s :<b

ISBN:

9781108493956

1108493955

OCLC:

1122689286