The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521653251)

This book offers an original study of debates that arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature and the new class of readers produced by the revolution in information and literacy in eighteenth-century England. The first part concentrates on the dominant arguments about the role of literature and the status of the author; the second shifts its focus to the debates about working-class activists and radical women authors, and examines the growth of a Romantic ideology within this context of political and cultural turmoil.

Author: Paul Keen
ISBN-10: 0521653258
ISBN-13: 9780521653251
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/28/1999
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.92w x 0.82d