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Reading Keats'S Letters - An Epistolary Poetics

by Andrew (University Of Bristol) Bennett

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 This is the first full-length critical study of Keats's letters. Featuring insightful close readings and developing a unique theory of literary contingency, it accounts for the letters' unique power and rhetorical brilliance while also developing a framework for the formal literary study of the personal letter.
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Irish Romanticism, Rhetoric, And Writing

by James (University Of Exeter) Kelly

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 From 1800 to 1830, Irish writers and orators gave new visibility to Irish literature in English. This landmark study explores the diverse ways they did so, providing insights of consequence not only for the field of Irish literature, but also for wider histories of rhetoric and the Romantic period.
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The Sciences Of The Senses In Romantic Literature - Sight, Touch, And Vision

by Sophie (Universite De Lille) Musitelli

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 Exploring Romantic writers' free and imaginative confrontation with eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century scientific research, Sophie Musitelli reveals how the physiology of the senses allowed them to envision new modalities of sensation, in an attempt at turning touch into a visionary sense.
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Romanticism Bewitched - Witchcraft, Revolution And The Female Demonic

by Orianne (University Of Maryland, Baltimore County) Smith

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 From its recurring appearances in Gothic poetry and prose to the menacing images of Fuseli and Blake, Orianne Smith provides an interdisciplinary reimagining of the Romantic witch, shedding new light on the history of witchcraft and its influence on public discourse, literature and art.
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Reading Sympathy In Romantic Literature

by Stacey (University Of Warwick) Mcdowell

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 Through incisive analysis, Stacey McDowell shows how Romantic writers reflect on ideas about reading, revealing what the literary portrayal of shared reading adds to histories of the book and moral philosophy, and how the effects of form and style aim to reproduce the shared experience of reading described.
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William Blake And Romantic Biology - Evolution, Originality, And Organic Form

by Tara (The University Of Hong Kong) Lee

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 Delving into his biological imagery, Tara Lee shows how Blake articulates radical views about spirituality and embodiment, revolutionary politics, sexuality and genius, as well as textual and artistic reproduction. This insightful study sheds new light on the relationship between literature, science, and culture in the long eighteenth century.
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Caricature And Realism In The Romantic Novel

by Olivia Ferguson

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 This one-of-a-kind cultural history explores caricature as a distinctively literary phenomenon, exploring how realism co-operates with 'caricature talk' in British novels of the Romantic period. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
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The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century - Print, Sociability, And The Cultures Of Collecting

by Gillian (University Of York) Russell

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 This book revises the view of printed ephemera as a trivial or disposable by giving a history of its role in eighteenth-century culture. It explores how tickets, playbills and posters became a way of facilitating social interaction and, for collectors, a means of preserving the evanescence of daily life.
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Romantic Fiction And Literary Excess In The Minerva Press Era

by Hannah Doherty (Suffolk University, Massachusetts) Hudson

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 In the Romantic period, more novels were published in England than ever before. This book offers scholars and book historians a new perspective on the effects of this change, showing how this age of mass production inspired both critique and innovation among authors, publishers, readers and reviewers.
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Late Romanticism And The End Of Politics - Byron, Mary Shelley, And The Last Men

by John (Binghamton University, State University Of New York) Havard

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 This study invites researchers of Romantic literature and literary and political culture to consider how this period's imaginings of the end of the world shaped thinking about politics and political change. Its highly original arguments on this current theme will interest students of political thought, affect theory, and ecocriticism.
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Romanticism And The Biopolitics Of Modern War Writing

by Neil (Unsw, Canberra) Ramsey

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 In this book, Neil Ramsey examines the intellectual contexts of the period in which modern war writing first took shape: the Romantic era. Demonstrating the critical importance of theories of biopolitics in understanding modern war, Ramsey reveals rich and often surprising interconnections between military literature and Romantic culture.
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Wales, Romanticism, And The Making Of Imperial Culture

by Timothy (Duke University, North Carolina) Heimlich

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 This ambitious study argues that in the long eighteenth century the meanings of Britain and Britishness, once synonymous with Wales, transformed. It opens paradigm-shifting insight into the influences of empire and imperialism upon British literary production, engaging in debates around imperialism both internally and abroad.
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The Book Unbound - Material Cultures Of Reading And Collecting, 1750â€“1850

by Luisa (Birkbeck College, University Of London) Cale

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 Exploring Romantic-period works as open-ended collections of discrete book parts, prints, watercolours, manuscripts, and serial publications, this monograph changes understandings of the book as a medium through case studies on Walpole's private press publications, Blake's printmaker-poet's book making, and Dickens's serial fiction.
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Coleridge And The Geometric Idiom - Walking With Euclid

by Ann C. (State University Of New York, Buffalo) Colley

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 Adding to Coleridge's already substantial role as a multifaceted intellectual of the Romantic period, Ann Colley reveals how geometry channelled and shaped his thought and his perceptions of nature, illuminating the richness of the culture of walking, and the unexpected potential of landscape writing.
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Mary Wollstonecraft And Political Economy - The Feminist Critique Of Commercial Modernity

by Catherine (University Of Sussex) Packham

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 A compelling new account of Wollstonecraft as critic of commercial modernity. Through her major works, Wollstonecraft emerges as both political and economic radical, anticipating later Romantics. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
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Honor, Romanticism, And The Hidden Value Of Modernity

by Jamison (Ohio State University) Kantor

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 This book reveals the development of a progressive sense of honor and dignity â€" against its usual counterpoint, freedom â€" within nineteenth-century British poetry, prose, and abolitionist media. For readers of literature, sociology, politics, and economics, it offers a rich cultural history of a value long viewed as reactionary and regressive.
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Orientation In European Romanticism - The Art Of Falling Upwards

by Paul (Queen Mary University Of London) Hamilton

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 Exploring the Romantic period's experiments in individual and national self-consciousness, this essential comparative study of European literature, philosophy and politics makes striking connections and contrasts to reveal identities being re-orientated and disorientated in response to historical change from the French Revolution onwards.
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Jane Austen And Other Minds - Ordinary Language Philosophy In Literary Fiction

by Eric Reid (University Of Vermont) Lindstrom

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 Jane Austen and Other Minds offers a lively reintroduction to all six of Austen's finished novels through an ambitious choice to pair analysis of her novelistic ordinary language â€" her style, conversation, and moral thought â€"Â with the major practitioners of twentieth-century ordinary language philosophy, including J. L. Austin and Stanley Cavell.
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Wordsworth After War - Recovering Peace In The Later Poetry

by Philip (University Of Leicester) Shaw

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 Providing new perspectives on Wordsworth's later poetry, Philip Shaw reveals how his work after the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars reflects poetic and political engagement with peace. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
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Stael, Romanticism And Revolution - The Life And Times Of The First European

by John Claiborne (University Of Texas, Rio Grande Valley) Isbell

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 Two centuries of sexism obscured StaÃ«l's legacy. John Isbell here restores her reputation as historian, theorist of Romanticism, and Revolutionary, revealing her abolitionist and anti-imperialist commitment. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
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Caricature And Realism In The Romantic Novel

by Olivia Ferguson

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 This one-of-a-kind cultural history explores caricature as a distinctively literary phenomenon, exploring how realism co-operates with 'caricature talk' in British novels of the Romantic period. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
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Caricature And Realism In The Romantic Novel

by Olivia Ferguson

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 This one-of-a-kind cultural history explores caricature as a distinctively literary phenomenon, exploring how realism co-operates with 'caricature talk' in British novels of the Romantic period. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
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Walter Scott And The Greening Of Scotland - Emergent Ecologies Of A Nation

by Susan (University Of Essex) Oliver

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 For academics, students and general readers interested in how literature intersects with environmental history, a focus on Walter Scott and nineteenth-century writing puts this study in the context of the emerging Anthropocene. Scotland's human and nonhuman land relations along with ecocritical theory provide national and global perspectives.
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Mary Wollstonecraft And Political Economy - The Feminist Critique Of Commercial Modernity

by Catherine (University Of Sussex) Packham

~~120,32€~~ 108,29€ 10% OFF

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 A compelling new account of Wollstonecraft as critic of commercial modernity. Through her major works, Wollstonecraft emerges as both political and economic radical, anticipating later Romantics. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
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