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Cultural Politics in the 1790s
Andrew McCann
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Description for Cultural Politics in the 1790s
Hardback. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 237 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 225 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
Cultural Politics in the 1790s examines the relationship between sentimental literature, political activism and the public sphere at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on critical theorists such as Habermas, Negt and Kluge, Marcuse and Foucault, it attempts to demonstrate how major literary and political figures of the 1790s can be read in terms of the broader dynamics of modernity. Reading a diverse range of political and literary material from the period, it examines how relationships between the aesthetic and the political, the private and the public, mark the emergence and consolidation of bourgeois behavioural norms and the simultaneous ... Read more
Cultural Politics in the 1790s examines the relationship between sentimental literature, political activism and the public sphere at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on critical theorists such as Habermas, Negt and Kluge, Marcuse and Foucault, it attempts to demonstrate how major literary and political figures of the 1790s can be read in terms of the broader dynamics of modernity. Reading a diverse range of political and literary material from the period, it examines how relationships between the aesthetic and the political, the private and the public, mark the emergence and consolidation of bourgeois behavioural norms and the simultaneous ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
Series
Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312216450
SKU
V9780312216450
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99-15
About Andrew McCann
ANDREW McCANN teaches in the English Department at the University of Queensland.
Reviews for Cultural Politics in the 1790s
...Cultural Politics in the 1790s is both accomplished and promising. Studies in Romanticism