British State Romanticism : Authorship, Agency, and Bureaucratic Nationalism.
Material type: TextPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (215 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780804773485Subject(s): English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Literature and state -- Great Britain | Nationalism and literature -- Great Britain | Romanticism -- Great BritainGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: British State Romanticism : Authorship, Agency, and Bureaucratic NationalismDDC classification: 820.935841 LOC classification: PR457Online resources: Click to ViewIntro -- 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.
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