Revolutions in Romantic Literature: An Anthology of Print Culture,1780-1832

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Paul Keen
Broadview Press, 11 mrt 2004 - 354 pagina's

This concise Broadview anthology of primary source materials is unique in its focus on Romantic literature and the ways in which the period itself was characterized by wide-ranging, self-conscious debates about the meaning of literature. It includes materials that are not available in other Romantic literature anthologies.

The anthology is organized into thirteen sections that highlight the intensity and sophistication with which a variety of related literary issues were debated in the Romantic period. These debates posed fundamental questions about the very nature of literature as a cultural phenomenon, the extent and role of the reading public, literature’s relation to the sciences and the aesthetic, the influence of contemporary commercial pressures, and the impact of perceived excesses in consumer fashions. The anthology foregrounds the ways that these literary debates converged with broader social and political controversies such as the French Revolution, the struggle for women’s rights, colonialism, and the anti-slave trade campaign.

This anthology includes an impressive range of writings from the period (including literary criticism and philosophical, political, scientific, and travel writing) which embodies the collection’s broad approach to Romantic literature. Both lesser-known and more canonical writings are included, and the selections are organized by topic in such a way as to dramatize the debates and exchanges which characterize the Romantic period.

 

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Monthly Review Review of An Enquiry concerning Political Justice and
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THE READING PUBLIC
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New Monthly Magazine The Influence of Books William Hazlitt 1828
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Reflections on Education
29
Some former Articles Reviewed by an
35
James Lackington Memoirs of the FortyFive First Years of the Life
42
Mary Robinson Memoirs of Mary Robinson Written by Herself 1800
51
William Gifford Esq The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus
61
Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings
199
Daniel Isaac Eaton The Pernicious Effects of the Art of Printing Upon Society
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William Godwin Considerations on Lord Grenvilles And Mr Pitts Bills
227
A REVOLUTION IN FEMALE MANNERS
233
Mary Wollstonecraft Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1792
239
Priscilla Wakefield Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex
249
Hannah More Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education 1799
255
Thomas Gould A Vindication of the Right Honourable Edmund Burkes
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Francis Place The Autobiography of Francis Place 1824
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THE BOOK TRADE
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Gentlemans Magazine Bibliographic Account of the late Mr Joseph
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Anonymous An Address to the Parliament of Great Britain on the Claims
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Mr Fishers Publication on StratforduponAvon
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THE VANITY FAIR OF KNOWLEDGE LITERARY FASHIONS
104
Isaac DIsraeli Preface to An Essay on the Manners and Genius of
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A Modern Requisite Towards
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THE ARTS AND SCIENCES
124
Monthly Magazine A Tribute to the Memory of the Late Excellent
128
Humphry Davy A Discourse Introductory to a Course of Lectures
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Preface to Gentlemans Magazine and Historical Chronicle 1790
154
ROMANTIC LITERATURE
170
Edinburgh Review Review of Thalaba the Destroyer By Robert Southey 1802
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THE SECOND WAVE OF REFORM
271
Quarterly Review Parliamentary Reform A Review
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S T Coleridge A Lay Sermon March 1817
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The Examiner State of The World 3 January 1819
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Thomas Erskine Speech for the Defense in the Case of the King against
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Preface to Dissertations and Miscellaneous Pieces Relating to The History
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Consisting of Original
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THE SLAVE TRADE
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Helen Maria Williams A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating
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The Rev Mr Robert Boucher Nicholls Dean of Middleham Observations
329
Bryan Edwards The History Civil and Commercial of the British Colonies
337
S T Coleridge On the Slave Trade The Watchman 1796
345
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES
351
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Paul Keen is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Carleton University. He is the author of The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and editor of The Radical Popular Press in Britain, 1817-1821 (Pickering & Chatto, 2003).

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