Frey, Anne.
British State Romanticism : Authorship, Agency, and Bureaucratic Nationalism. - 1 online resource (215 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Literature and the State in Post-Napoleonic Britain -- 1. Fragment Poems and Fragment Nations: The Aesthetics of Ireland in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Late Work -- 2. Wordsworth's Establishment Poetics -- 3. Speaking for the Law: State Agency in Scott's Novels -- 4. A Nation Without Nationalism: The Reorganization of Feeling in Austen's Persuasion -- 5. De Quincey's Imperial Systems -- Notes -- Index.
British State Romanticism examines how late Romantic writers rethought aesthetics and agency in order to take part in a modernizing British state.
9780804773485
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Literature and state -- Great Britain.
Nationalism and literature -- Great Britain.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Electronic books.
PR457
820.935841
British State Romanticism : Authorship, Agency, and Bureaucratic Nationalism. - 1 online resource (215 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Literature and the State in Post-Napoleonic Britain -- 1. Fragment Poems and Fragment Nations: The Aesthetics of Ireland in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Late Work -- 2. Wordsworth's Establishment Poetics -- 3. Speaking for the Law: State Agency in Scott's Novels -- 4. A Nation Without Nationalism: The Reorganization of Feeling in Austen's Persuasion -- 5. De Quincey's Imperial Systems -- Notes -- Index.
British State Romanticism examines how late Romantic writers rethought aesthetics and agency in order to take part in a modernizing British state.
9780804773485
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Literature and state -- Great Britain.
Nationalism and literature -- Great Britain.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Electronic books.
PR457
820.935841