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S. Schmid - British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries - 9781349293124 - V9781349293124
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British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

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Description for British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries paperback. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 343.
British salons, with guests such as Byron, Moore, and Thackeray, were veritable hothouses of political and cultural agitation. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - Schmid paints a vivid picture of the British salon between the 1780s and the 1840s.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
Series
Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349293124
SKU
V9781349293124
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About S. Schmid
Susanne Schmid teaches at Mainz University, Germany. She has published several books, among the Helene Richter-prize winning Shelley's German Afterlives (2007), as well as articles on Romanticism, film studies, and cultural studies.

Reviews for British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
“Schmid’s book offers itself as a substantial contribution to this ever-expanding area of research. … Besides providing cultural-historical contextualization, Schmid’s introduction illustrates several terminological and theoretical points such as the notions of the ‘non-place’, ‘social sphere’ and performativity. … the book presents a clear structure based on the arguments and theoretical premisses laid out in the introduction.” (Diego Saglia, The ... Read more

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