The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s : Print Culture and the Public Sphere
by
Paul Keen
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
ISBN-10
0521653258
ISBN-13
9780521653251
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 28th, 1999
Print length
316 Pages
Weight
565 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: generalLiterary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
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An original study of debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature and the new class of readers produced by the revolution in information and literacy in eighteenth-century England. Topics debated include the status of the author, working-class activists and radical women authors.
This book offers an original study of the debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature. Paul Keen shows how these debates were situated at the intersection of the French Revolution and a more gradual revolution in information and literacy reflecting the aspirations of the professional classes in eighteenth-century England. He shows these movements converging in hostility to a new class of readers, whom critics saw as dangerously subject to the effects of seditious writings or the vagaries of literary fashion. The first part of the book concentrates on the dominant arguments about the role of literature and the status of the author; the second shifts its focus to the debates about working-class activists, radical women authors, and the Orientalists, and examines the growth of a Romantic ideology within this context of political and cultural turmoil.
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