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A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

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 era * Includes fresh insights into such topics as religious controversy and politics, empire and nationalism, and the relationship of Romanticism to modernist aesthetics * Ranges across the Romantic era's literary, visual, and non-fictional genres

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• Größe: 9.57MB

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Autor

Jon Klancher teaches Romantic and Victorian literature, the sociology of culture, and the history of books and reading at Carnegie Mellon University. He has written widely on Romantic and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural history in such journals and collections as ELH, Studies in Romanticism, MLQ, Romantic Metropolis, The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, The New Historicism, and The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1837. Author of The Making of English Reading Audiences, 1790-1832 (1987), he is currently completing a book, Transfiguring "Arts & Sciences": Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444308570
• Artikelnr.: 38309887

Rezensionen

"Though unusually well (and often quotably) written for collectionsof this type, the volume is best suited to specialists, who willfind plenty of usable nuggets here." (CHOICE, 2009)