| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) : illustrations |
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 118
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 118.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- From morals to measurement : scaling time, anticipating the future, and quantifying decline in Gibbon, Smith, and Playfair -- The decline of literature : acceleration, print saturation, and media time -- The politics of prediction : Anna Barbauld and the ruins of London -- On ruins : contingency, time parallax, and "The Ruined Cottage" -- Coleridge's Slow Time -- Fast time, slow time, deep time : decline, extinction, and the pace of Romanticism. |
| Summary |
Offers fresh understanding of British Romanticism by exploring how anxieties about decline impacted debates about literature's form and meaning. |
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"Anxieties about decline were a prominent feature of British public discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. These anxieties were borne out repeatedly in books and periodicals, pamphlets and poems. Tracing the reciprocal development of Romantic-era Britain's rapidly expanding literary and market cultures through the lens of decline, Jonathan Sachs offers a fresh way of understanding British Romanticism. The book focuses on three aspects of literary experience--questions of value, the fascination of ruins, and the representation of slow time--to explore how shifting conceptions of progress and change inform a post-Enlightenment sense of cultural decline. Combining close readings of Romantic literary texts with an examination of works from political economy, historical writing, classical studies, and media history the book reveals for the first time how anxieties about decline impacted literary form and shaped Romantic debates about poetry and the meaning of literature."--The introductory preamble |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Literature and society. |
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Civilization. |
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English literature. |
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Romanticism. |
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Great Britain. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sachs, Jonathan, 1969- Poetics of decline in British Romanticism. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018 1108420311 9781108420310 (OCoLC)994509771 |
| ISBN |
9781108352277 (electronic bk.) |
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1108352278 (electronic bk.) |
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9781108333115 (electronic bk.) |
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1108333117 (electronic bk.) |
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1108349870 |
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9781108349871 |
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9781108420310 (hardcover) |
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1108420311 (print) |
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9781108413688 (paperback) |
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