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The poetics of decline in British Romanticism /
Offers fresh understanding of British Romanticism by exploring how anxieties about decline impacted debates about literature's form and meaning.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;
118. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Offers fresh understanding of British Romanticism by exploring how anxieties about decline impacted debates about literature's form and meaning. "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 of 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."--The introductory preamble |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108352277 1108352278 9781108333115 1108333117 1108349870 9781108349871 |