British State Romanticism
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- Synopsis
- Romantic period authors are stereotyped as imaginative geniuses working in isolation from politics. In a rethinking of 19th century British Romantic fiction, Frey (English, Texas Christian U. ) argues that the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, and Thomas De Quincey were not immune from being influenced by the increasing centralization of state power and bureaucratized cultural economy. Drawing on Foucault's model of the pastoral state, she contends that this "State Romanticism" movement offered an aesthetic model in which authors served as both creators and agents of this type of power structure. As in Austen's Persuasion, the state (via the navy in this case) is regarded as a means to shape individual and national character. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
- Copyright:
- 2010
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780804773485
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780804762281
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/16/17
- Copyrighted By:
- the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.