Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
Author: Anne Mellor
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ISBN: 9781403934093

Palgrave Studies in The Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print features work that does not fit comfortably within established boundaries - whether between periods or between disciplines. Uniquely, it combines efforts to engage the power and materiality of print with explorations of gender, race, and class. By attending as well to intersections of literature with the visual arts, medicine, law, and science, the series enables a large-scale rethinking of the origins of modernity.

Family Authorship and Romantic Print Culture

Family Authorship and Romantic Print Culture
Author: Michelle Levy
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2008-01-17
Genre: History
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Family Authorship and Romantic Print Culture explores the conjunction of authorship and family life as a distinctive cultural formation of Romantic-era Britain. Through examination of the practices and texts of literary families, the book traces an alternative history of Romantic authorship, one that lies on the cusp between a vanishing manuscript culture and the dominance of print; that reflects a struggle in Romantic self-identity between communities of feeling and individual genius; and that grapples with an evolving tension between the private and public spheres.

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.

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.

Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century

Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
Author: I. Csengei
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-12-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780230308442

What makes it possible for self-interest, cruelty and violence to become part of the benevolent, compassionate ideology of eighteenth-century sensibility? This book explores forms of emotional response, including sympathy, tears, swoons and melancholia through a range of eighteenth-century literary, philosophical and scientific texts.

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.

Necromanticism

Necromanticism
Author: P. Westover
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-02-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230369499

Necromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers' compulsion to visit literary homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period. The book draws on the histories of tourism and literary genres to highlight Romanticism's recourse to the dead in its reading, writing, and canon-making practices.

Byron's Romantic Celebrity

Byron's Romantic Celebrity
Author: T. Mole
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2007-07-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230288383

This book offers a new history and theory of modern celebrity. It argues that celebrity is a cultural apparatus that emerged in response to the Romantic industrialization of print and culture. It investigates the often strained interactions of artistic endeavour and commercial enterprise, and the place of celebrity culture in history of the self.

The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism, 1790-1837

The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism, 1790-1837
Author: Katey Castellano
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137354208

Analyzing Romantic conservative critiques of modernity found in literature, philosophy, natural history, and agricultural periodicals, this book finds a common theme in the 'intergenerational imagination.' This impels an environmental ethic in which obligations to past and future generations shape decisions about inherited culture and land.

Writing Romanticism

Writing Romanticism
Author: J. Labbe
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2011-06-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230306144

What is 'Wordsworthian' Romanticism and how did it evolve? This book argues that only by reading Charlotte Smith's poetry in tandem with William Wordsworth's can this question be answered, demonstrating their mutual contribution to the creation of the 'Wordsworthian', through literary analysis and historical contextualizing of their writings.