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British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)
Susanne Schmid
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Paperback. British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries is a comprehensive study of the British salon between the 1780s and the 1840s. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - this study establishes sociable networks of days gone by. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSA; DSBD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 215 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
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.
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
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137557643
SKU
V9781137557643
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Ref
99-15
About Susanne 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 (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)
“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