Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1810s (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009292894)

The 1810s - a decade marked by the challenges of war, monarchy, poverty, religion, and nationalism - are immortalised in Percy Bysshe Shelley's impassioned but despairing sonnet, 'England in 1819', as a graveyard of undead ideologies from which he longs that a 'Phantom may / Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day'. Criticism too often looks past the 1810s and towards the illusory border between 'Romantic' and 'Victorian' to hunt down these bright phantoms and follow their progress into a century of cultural, affective, philosophical, and political transformation. Yet the 1810s were more than a threshold decade from which we were thrown into the beginnings of the modern world. As the essays in this volume reveal, the 1810s brought into focus new questions about subjects as broad as the imagination, literary form, morality, aesthetics, race, politics, the environment, the body, gender, and sexuality.

Author: Emma Mason
ISBN-10: 1009292897
ISBN-13: 9781009292894
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/26/2026
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d