Cultural Politics in the 1790s: Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312216450)

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 marginalization of potentially more radical forms of political and cultural production.

Author: A. McCann
ISBN-10: 0312216459
ISBN-13: 9780312216450
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/11/1999
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.81h x 5.75w x 1.09d