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This book shows that the publishers and editors of the radical press deployed Romantic-era texts for their own political ends and for their largely working-class readership long after those works original publication. It examines how the literature of the British Romantic period was excerpted and re...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46929-4 |
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This book shows that the publishers and editors of the radical press deployed Romantic-era texts for their own political ends and for their largely working-class readership long after those works original publication. It examines how the literature of the British Romantic period was excerpted and reprinted in radical political papers in Britain in the nineteenth century. The agents of this story were bound by neither the chronological march of literary history, nor by the original form of the literary texts they reprinted. Godwin s Caleb Williams and poems by Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (IX, 245 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319469294 |
| Index Number: | PN760 |
| CLC: | I106 |
| Contents: | Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: The 1790s, Extended -- Chapter 2: Reanimating Caleb Williams; or, How to Keep the 1790s Alive -- Chapter 3: The Past Jumps Up: Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth -- Part II: Politics and Poetics -- Chapter 4: The Lyric Speaker Goes to Gaol: British Poetry and Radical Prisoners -- Chapter 5: From Citation to Recitation: Shelley s Men of England -- Chapter 6: Coda -- Bibliography -- Index. . |