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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Oxford companion to the Romantic Age. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009 (OCoLC)41339093 |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Iain McCalman |
ISBN: | 9780191518218 0191518212 |
OCLC Number: | 472173184 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 780 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
Contents: | Introduction: A Romantic Age Companion ; PART I: MAJOR ESSAYS ; I. TRANSFORMING POLITY AND NATION ; Revolution ; War ; Democracy ; Women ; Empire ; Slavery ; Policing ; Law ; Utopianism ; II. REORDERING SOCIAL AND PRIVATE WORLDS ; Religion ; Sensibility ; Poverty ; Domesticity ; Industrialization ; Class ; Land ; Education ; Medicine ; III. CULTURE, CONSUMPTION, AND THE ARTS ; Consumerism ; Viewing ; Publishing ; Prints ; Popular Culture ; Theatre ; Design ; Music ; Painting ; Architecture ; Poetry ; Prose ; Novels ; IV. EMERGING KNOWLEDGES ; Enlightenment ; Political Economy ; Natural Philosophy (Science) ; Antiquarianism (Popular) ; Mythology ; Exploration ; History ; Psychology ; Language ; Literary Theory ; Index to Part I ; PART II: ALPHABETICALLY-ORDERED SHORTER ENTRIES |
Other Titles: | Romantic age British culture, 1776-1832 |
Responsibility: | general editor, Iain McCalman ; associate editors, Jon Mee, Gillian Russell, Clara Tuite ; assistant editors, Kate Fullagar, Patsy Hardy. |
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This is not only an invaluable source of information on a dazzling range of topics, but also a volume bristling with ideas - and ideals. There is an explicitly radical, polemical edge to many of the contributions, and if these essays and entries provoke the active engagement of the reader rather than merely delivering knowledge with an air of unchallengeable authority, they are more than upholding the spirit of the age that is under debate. * Fiona Stafford, Review of English Studies * Read more...
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- Romanticism -- Great Britain.
- Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century.
- Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century.
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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- Intellectual life.
- Romanticism.
- Great Britain.