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Author Frey, Anne, 1972-

Title British state romanticism : authorship, agency, and bureaucratic nationalism / Anne Frey.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 204 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-197) and index.
Contents Introduction : literature and the state in post-Napoleonic Britain -- Fragment poems and fragment nations : the aesthetics of Ireland in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's late work -- Wordsworth's establishment poetics -- Speaking for the law : state agency in Scott's novels -- A nation without nationalism : the reorganization of feeling in Austen's Persuasion -- De Quincey's imperial systems.
Summary Frey contends that changing definitions of state power in the late Romantic period propelled authors to revisit the work of literature as well as the profession of authorship. Traditionally, critics have seen the Romantics as imaginative geniuses and have viewed the supposedly less imaginative character of the Romantics' late work as evidence of declining abilities. The author of this book argues, in contrast, that late Romanticism offers an alternative aesthetic model which adjusts authorship to work within an expanding and bureaucratising state.
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Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Literature and state -- Great Britain.
Literature and state.
Great Britain.
Nationalism and literature -- Great Britain.
Nationalism and literature.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Romanticism.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Frey, Anne, 1972- British state romanticism. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010 9780804762281 (DLC) 2009029787 (OCoLC)427644980
ISBN 9780804773485 (electronic book)
0804773483 (electronic book)
0804762287 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780804762281 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780804762281 (cloth ; alkaline paper)