Book Description
This book examines the Cockney phenomenon of the late Romantic period - the new metropolitan art and literature of the 1820s and 1830s.
Author : Gregory Dart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107024927
This book examines the Cockney phenomenon of the late Romantic period - the new metropolitan art and literature of the 1820s and 1830s.
Author : Diego Saglia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1108426417
Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.
Author : Elizabeth A. Bohls
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1107079349
This book analyzes representations of the places of British slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and Britain - in writings by planters, slaves and travellers.
Author : Jonathan Sachs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108352278
Anxieties about decline were a prominent feature of British public discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. These anxieties were borne out repeatedly in books and periodicals, pamphlets and poems. Tracing the reciprocal development of Romantic-era Britain's rapidly expanding literary and market cultures through the lens of decline, Jonathan Sachs offers a fresh way of understanding British Romanticism. The book focuses on three aspects of literary experience - questions of value, the fascination with ruins, and the representation of slow time - to explore how shifting conceptions of progress and change inform a post-enlightenment sense of cultural decline. Combining close readings of Romantic literary texts with an examination of works from political economy, historical writing, classical studies, and media history the book reveals for the first time how anxieties about decline impacted literary form and shaped Romantic debates about poetry and the meaning of literature.
Author : E. J. Clery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108101429
In 1811 England was on the brink of economic collapse and revolution. The veteran poet and campaigner Anna Letitia Barbauld published a prophecy of the British nation reduced to ruins by its refusal to end the interminable war with France, titled Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. Combining ground-breaking historical research with incisive textual analysis, this new study dispels the myth surrounding the hostile reception of the poem and takes a striking episode in Romantic-era culture as the basis for exploring poetry as a medium of political protest. Clery examines the issues at stake, from the nature of patriotism to the threat to public credit, and throws new light on the views and activities of a wide range of writers, including radical, loyalist and dissenting journalists, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, and Barbauld herself. Putting a woman writer at the centre of the enquiry opens up a revised perspective on the politics of Romanticism.
Author : Ian Newman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 33,84 MB
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108470378
An examination of taverns in the Romantic period, with a particular focus on architecture and the culture of conviviality.
Author : Angela Esterhammer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1108493955
Illuminates Britain's literary field during the 1820s as a decade of improvisation, speculation and rapid cultural change.
Author : Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107110327
This book explores the relationship between ideas of the East and the struggle for democratic rights in the Romantic period.
Author : Ian Haywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107044219
A lively, richly illustrated study of iconic caricatures, showing the interrelationship between art, satire and politics in the Romantic period.
Author : Jeffrey N. Cox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1107071941
A fresh take on Romantic writers including Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats, within the culture of the Napoleonic War years.