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  • The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism

    by Mark Canuel ...
    What did Romantic writers mean when they wrote about "progress" and "perfection"? This book shows how Romantic writers inventively responded to familiar ideas about political progress which they inherited from the eighteenth century. Whereas earlier writers such as Voltaire and John Millar likened improvements in political institutions to the progress of the sciences or refinement of manners, the ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • The Shadow of Death

    Literature, Romanticism, and the Subject of Punishment

    by Mark Canuel ...
    The Shadow of Death is a timely and ambitious reassessment of English Romantic literature and the unique role it played in one of the great liberal political causes of the modern age. Mark Canuel argues that Romantic writers in Great Britain led one of the earliest assaults on the death penalty and were instrumental in bringing about penal-law reforms. He demonstrates how writers like Percy Bysshe ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime

    by Mark Canuel ...
    Read the Romantics from the perspective of both political theory and literary studies—and consider justice through the lens of the sublime.In the past ten years, theorists from Elaine Scarry to Roger Scruton have devoted renewed attention to the aesthetic of beauty. Part of their discussions claim that beauty—because it arises from a sense of proportion, symmetry, or reciprocity—provides a model ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

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    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English literary history. Compiler of the first great English dictionary, editor of Shakespeare, biographer and critic of the English poets, author both of the influential journal Rambler and the popular fiction ... Read more

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  • Romanticism, History, Historicism

    Essays on an Orthodoxy

    by Damian Walford Davies ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Romanticism
    The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism’s revisionary engagements have played a central role in the realignment of the field and in the expansion of the Romantic canon. In this major new collection of eleven ... Read more

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  • Victorian Soul-Talk

    Poetry, Democracy, and the Body Politic

    by Julia F. Saville ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the decades between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1884 when British poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Robert Browning, and Algernon Charles Swinburne, along with their transatlantic contemporary Walt Whitman, defended the civil rights of disenfranchised souls as Western nations slowly evolved toward modern democracies with shared transnational ... Read more

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  • Urbanization and English Romantic Poetry

    by Stephen Tedeschi ...
    Series Book 117 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    Through an incisive analysis of the emerging debates surrounding urbanization in the Romantic period, together with close readings of poets including William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Stephen Tedeschi explores the notion that the Romantic poets criticized the historical form that the process of urbanization had taken, rather than urbanization itself. The works of the ... Read more

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  • Misogynous Economies

    The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    by Laura C. Mandell ...
    The eighteenth century saw the birth of the concept of literature as business: literature critiqued and promoted capitalism, and books themselves became highly marketable canonical objects. During this period, misogynous representations of women often served to advance capitalist desires and to redirect feelings of antagonism toward the emerging capitalist order. Misogynous Economies proposes that ... Read more

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  • England's First Family of Writers

    Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley

    by Julie A. Carlson ...
    A collective consideration of Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and Shelley with "extended and sophisticated readings of many of [their] neglected works" ( Choice).Life and literature were inseparable for Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley. In England's First Family of Writers, Julie A. Carlson demonstrates how and why the works of these individuals can best be understood within the ... Read more

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  • Luxurious Sexualities

    Textual Practice Volume 11 Issue 3

    Edited by Jean Howard, Alan Sinfield, Lindsay Smith ...
    Luxurious Sexualities contains some of the most path- breaking adventurous critical writing currently to be found in Britain. Focusing on eighteenth century sexuality it is intriguing, controversial and provoking.Textual Practice contains articles relating to women, popular culture, visual media, and ethnic and sexual minorities. ... Read more

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  • Shaping Childhood

    Themes of Uncertainty in the History of Adult-Child Relationships

    Edited by Roger Cox ...
    What part has religion played in the history of child-rearing? How do we persuade children to behave rationally and how should we exercise adult authority? What use do we make of their innocence and how do we cope with their sexuality? Has history left us with ideas about the child which make no sense in the prevailing conditions of the late twentieth century?In Shaping Childhood these questions ... Read more

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