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Anne Frey - British State Romanticism: Authorship, Agency, and Bureaucratic Nationalism - 9780804762281 - V9780804762281
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British State Romanticism: Authorship, Agency, and Bureaucratic Nationalism

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Description for British State Romanticism: Authorship, Agency, and Bureaucratic Nationalism Hardback. British State Romanticism examines how late Romantic writers rethought aesthetics and agency in order to take part in a modernizing British state. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 458.

British State Romanticism contends that changing definitions of state power in the late Romantic period propelled authors to revisit the work of literature as well as the profession of authorship. Traditionally, critics have seen the Romantics as imaginative geniuses and viewed the supposedly less imaginative character of their late work as evidence of declining abilities. Frey argues, in contrast, that late Romanticism offers an alternative aesthetic model that adjusts authorship to work within an expanding and bureaucratizing state. She examines how Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, Scott, and De Quincey portray specific state and imperial agencies to debate what constituted government power, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804762281
SKU
V9780804762281
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About Anne Frey
Anne Frey is Assistant Professor of English at Texas Christian University.

Reviews for British State Romanticism: Authorship, Agency, and Bureaucratic Nationalism
"British State Romanticism is an audacious book, one I welcome for its inventive account of the conservative turn taken by some Romantic writers during the Regency . . . Deserve[s] praise for offering a convincing reformulation of later Romantic conservative culture."
Michael Gamer
Studies in Romanticism
"This book is a very well-argued, timely, and original intervention into ... Read more

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