The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
Title | The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period PDF eBook |
Author | William St Clair |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 806 |
Release | 2004-07-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521810067 |
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The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
Title | The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period PDF eBook |
Author | William St Clair |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 796 |
Release | 2007-01-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521699440 |
Most people believed that reading significantly influenced minds, attitudes, and actions during the centuries when printed paper was the only means by which texts could travel across time and distance. William St. Clair offers a very different picture of the past from those presented by traditional approaches through quantified information he provides on book prices, print runs, intellectual property, and readerships gathered from over fifty publishing and printing archives.
The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
Title | The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period PDF eBook |
Author | William St. Clair |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Book industries and trade |
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The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
Title | The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period PDF eBook |
Author | William Linn Saint Clair |
Publisher | |
Pages | 765 |
Release | 2004 |
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The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773
Title | The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773 PDF eBook |
Author | Allen Reddick |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1996-01-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521568388 |
This second edition of the acclaimed study of Johnson's Dictionary incorporates new commentary and scholarship.
British State Romanticism
Title | British State Romanticism PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Frey |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2009-12-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0804773483 |
British State Romanticism 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 viewed the supposedly less imaginative character of their late work as evidence of declining abilities. Frey argues, in contrast, that late Romanticism offers an alternative aesthetic model that adjusts authorship to work within an expanding and bureaucratizing state. She examines how Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, Scott, and De Quincey portray specific state and imperial agencies to debate what constituted government power, through what means government penetrated individual lives, and how non-governmental figures could assume government authority. Defining their work as part of an expanding state, these writers also reworked Romantic structures such as the imagination, organic form, and the literary sublime to operate through state agencies and to convey membership in a nation.
Before the Public Library
Title | Before the Public Library PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Towsey |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2017-10-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004348670 |
Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Essays by eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines seek to place, for the first time, community libraries within an Atlantic context over a two-century period. Taking a comparative approach, this volume shows that community libraries played an important – and largely unrecognized – role in shaping Atlantic social networks, political and religious movements, scientific and geographic knowledge, and economic enterprise. Libraries had a distinct role to play in shaping modern identities through the acquisition and circulation of specific kinds of texts, the fostering of sociability, and the building of community-based institutions.