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England in 1819
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- Book Synopsis
- Many of the writers from 1819, argues James Chandler, were acutely aware not only of their writing's place in history, but also of its place as history-a realization of a literary "spirit of the age" that resonates strongly with the current "return to history" in literary studies. Chandler explores the ties between Romantic and contemporary historicism and offers a series of cases of his own built around key texts from 1819. "1819? At first sight, it might not seem a 'hot date'; but as James Chandler argues in his powerful book, it would be a mistake to overlook a year of such exceptional political conflagration and literary pyrotechnics in British history. Chandler's study is a wide-ranging, enormously ambitious, densely packed, closely argued work."-John Brewer, New Republic "The book's largest argument, and the source of its considerable revelations, is that late twentieth-century practices of cultural history-writing have their roots in the peculiar Romantic historicism born in post-Waterloo Britain."-Jon Klancher, Times Literary Supplement "A monumental work of scholarship."-Terry Eagleton, The Independent
- About The Author
- James K. Chandler is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and the College at the University of Chicago.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780226101088
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press, (09 April 1998)
- Number of Pages
- 584
- Weight
- 966 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 41 mm
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