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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sachs, Jonathan, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Colección:Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 118.
Temas:
1700-1799
Romanticism > Great Britain > History.
English literature > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature and society.
Civilization.
English literature.
Romanticism.
Great Britain > Civilization > 18th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Civilisation > 18e siècle.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • From morals to measurement : scaling time, anticipating the future, and quantifying decline in Gibbon, Smith, and Playfair
  • The decline of literature : acceleration, print saturation, and media time
  • The politics of prediction : Anna Barbauld and the ruins of London
  • On ruins : contingency, time parallax, and "The Ruined Cottage"
  • Coleridge's Slow Time
  • Fast time, slow time, deep time : decline, extinction, and the pace of Romanticism.

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