Jonathan Sachs, Tbd

The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9781108413688
• ISBN-10: 1108413684
• Artikelnr.: 59789952

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Sachs is Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal. He is the author of Romantic Antiquity: Rome in the British Imagination, 1789-1832 (2010) and co-author of Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in an Age of Print Saturation (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. From morals to measurement: scaling time
anticipating the future
and quantifying decline in Gibbon
Smith and Playfair; 2. The decline of literature: acceleration
print saturation
and media time; 3. The politics of prediction: Anna Barbauld and the ruins of London; 4. On ruins: contingency
time parallax
and 'the ruined cottage'; 5. Coleridge's slow time; 6. Fast time
slow time
deep time: the pace of romanticism.