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The history of missed opportunities : British romanticism and the emergence of the everyday / William H. Galperin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galperin, William H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Through close engagement with the work of Wordsworth, Austen, and Byron, this study posits the emergence of the everyday as both a concept and a material event in the Romantic period, analyzing the practices of retrospection to which it gave rise.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prelude. The Panorama and the Everyday
- Introduction
- 1. The Everyday, History, and Possibility
- 2. Wordsworth’s Double Take
- 3. Histories of the Present and the Historicity of the Present
- 4. Lord Byron and Lady Byron
- 5. Don Juan and the Romantic Fragment
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781503603103
- 1503603105
- OCLC:
- 1198929565
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