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Bücher der Reihe Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

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    117,00 €

    Romanticism and the Letter is a collection of essays that explore various aspects of letter writing in the Romantic period of British Literature.

  • - The Radical Politics of the Excerpt
    von Casie LeGette
    88,00 €

    This book shows that the publishers and editors of the radical press deployed Romantic-era texts for their own political ends-and for their largely working-class readership-long after those works' original publication.

  • - Mary Wollstonecraft, the British Novel, and the Transformations of Feminism, 1796-1811
    von Deborah Weiss
    79,00 €

    This book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, embodied the transformations of feminist thought during the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romantic period.

  • von April London
    50,00 €

    This investigation of literary history writing between 1770 and 1820 identifies the mode's distinction from canon formation as central to its cultural vitality. Using secret history, memoir and the novel, amongst other sources, it invites a re-thinking of literary history's place in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print culture.

  • von Jessica Richard
    50,00 €

    Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and novels that interrogate the new socio-economy of long odds and lucky breaks.

  • - The Politics of Private Virtue in the Age of Walpole
    von Emrys Jones
    50,00 €

    Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue.

  • - Lessons from Indigenous Translations
    von Nikki Hessell
    116,00 - 117,00 €

    Focusing on poems by William Wordsworth, John Keats, Felicia Hemans, and Robert Burns, and on Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, it provides the first scholarly insight into the reception of major Romantic authors in indigenous languages, and makes a major contribution to the study of global Romanticism and its colonial heritage.

  • - The Road to the Stage
    von David Worrall
    51,00 €

    This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene.

  • - Spectacular Violence and the Politics of Representation, 1776-1832
    von I. Haywood
    51,00 €

    This book studies the impact of violence on the writing of the Romantic period. The focus is on the response of writers to a series of violent events including the revolutions in America and France and the Irish rebellion of 1798. Authors covered include Coleridge, Wordsworth, Scott, Byron, Fennimore Cooper, Equiano, and Helen Maria Williams.

  • - Bodies, Culture, Politics
    von Catherine Packham
    50,00 €

    This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s.

  • - Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism
    von Elizabeth Eger
    97,00 - 98,00 €

    This studyargues that female networks of conversation, correspondenceand patronage formed the foundation for women's work in the 'higher' realms of Shakespeare criticism and poetry. Eger traces the transition between Enlightenment and Romantic culture, arguing for the relevance of rational argument in the history of women's writing.

  • - 1688 and the Romantic Reform of Literature
    von Anthony Jarrells
    50,00 €

    Britain's Bloodless Revolutions explores the relationship of the emerging category of Literature to the emerging threat of popular violence between the Bloodless Revolution and the Romantic turn from revolution to reform.

  • von Esther Wohlgemut
    50,00 €

    Romantic Cosmopolitanism shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation that stands in contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke's which found nationality in, among other things, language, history, blood and geography.

  • - Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn and Elizabeth Carter
    von Melanie Bian Bigold
    30,00 €

    Using unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious contexts of women's letter-writing in the long 18th century. It shows how letter-writing functions as a form of literary manuscript exchange and argues for manuscript circulation as a method of engaging with the republic of letters.

  • von Alexander Grammatikos
    57,00 €

    British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation makes an original contribution to the field of British Romantic Hellenism (and Romanticism more broadly) by emphasizing the diversity of Romantic-era writers' attitudes towards, and portrayals of, Modern Greece.

  • - Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature
    von E. Simpson
    49,98 €

    This book argues that Romantic-era writers used the figure of the minstrel to imagine authorship as a social, responsive enterprise unlike the solitary process portrayed by Romantic myths of the lone genius. Simpson highlights the centrality of the minstrel to many important literary developments from the Romantic era through to the 1840s.

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    - Poetry and Cultures of the Occult in the 1790s
    von Stephanie Elizabeth Churms
    80,00 €

    It seeks to identify the place of occult activity and culture - in the form of curses, spells, future-telling, charms and protective talismans - in everyday life, together with the ways in which such practice figures, and is refigured, in literary and political discourse at a time of revolutionary upheaval.

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