Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840

Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840
Author: Peter de Bolla
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2005-01-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230502040

Over the last twenty years, critics and historians of the late Eighteenth-century have developed a multidisciplinary approach to the history of culture. This dialogue between literary critics and theorists, art historians and social historians is remapping the relations between culture and society, politics and aesthetics, law and representation. These essays by twelve internationally known scholars return 'Taste' to a central position in the discussion of nation, culture and aesthetics in the period.

Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture

Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture
Author: Sharon Alker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317062280

While recent scholarship has usefully positioned Burns within the context of British Romanticism as a spokesperson of Scottish national identity, Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture considers Burns's impact in the United States, Canada, and South America, where he has served variously as a site of cultural memory and of creative negotiation. Ambitious in its scope, the volume is divided into five sections that explore: transatlantic concerns in Burns's own work, Burns's early publication in North America, Burns's reception in the Americas, Burns's creation as a site of cultural memory, and extra-literary remediations of Burns, including contemporary digital representations. By tracing the transatlantic modulations of the poet and songwriter and his works, Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture sheds new light on the circuits connecting Scotland and Britain with the evolving cultures of the Americas from the late eighteenth century to the present.

Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel

Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel
Author: Mark Offord
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2016-07-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316721000

At the heart of Wordsworth's concerns is the question of how travel - both foreign and everyday - might also become an adventure into philosophy itself. This is an art of travel both as an approach to experience - one that draws on habits in order to revise them in the shock of new - and as a poetic approach that gives voice to the singular and foreign through the unique shapes of verse. Close readings of Wordsworth's 'pictures of Nature, Man, and Society' show how the natural is entangled with - and not simply opposed to, as many critics have suggested - the social, the political and the historical in this verse. This book draws on both eighteenth-century anthropology and travel literature, and debates in modern critical theory, to highlight Wordsworth's remarkable originality and his ongoing ability to transform our theoretical prejudgements in the unknown territory of the travel encounter.

William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England

William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England
Author: James Grande
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2014-08-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 113738008X

William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates.

Eighteenth-Century Vitalism

Eighteenth-Century Vitalism
Author: C. Packham
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2012-01-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230368395

This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s.

Bluestockings

Bluestockings
Author: E. Eger
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2010-01-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0230250505

This studyargues that female networks of conversation, correspondenceand patronage formed the foundation for women's work in the 'higher' realms of Shakespeare criticism and poetry. Eger traces the transition between Enlightenment and Romantic culture, arguing for the relevance of rational argument in the history of women's writing.

British Historical Fiction before Scott

British Historical Fiction before Scott
Author: A. Stevens
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2010-04-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0230275303

In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley , dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitation and experimentation.

Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England

Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Nicola Parsons
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2015-12-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230244769

This book analyzes the relation between print cultures and eighteenth-century literary and political practices and, identifying Queen Anne's England as a crucial moment in the public life of gossip, offers readings of key texts that demonstrate how gossip's interpretative strategies shaped readers' participation in the literary and public spheres.

The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
Author: Jessica Richard
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2011-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0230307272

Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and novels that interrogate the new socio-economy of long odds and lucky breaks.

The Works of Charlotte Smith, Part II vol 10

The Works of Charlotte Smith, Part II vol 10
Author: A. A. Markley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2020-03-19
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1000749320

Charlotte Turner Smith held a central position during the formative years of the British Romantic period. Smith's work includes eleven novels and two fictional adaptations from the French. This edition reveals the extent to which Smith's work in this form constitutes as significant an achievement as her poetry.