1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464417303321

Autore

Bugg John W. <1972->

Titolo

Five long winters : the trials of British Romanticism / / John Bugg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-8047-8730-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 246 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Disciplina

820.9/35841073

Soggetti

Authors, English - 18th century - Political and social views

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Politics and literature - England - History - 18th century

Romanticism - England

Electronic books.

Great Britain Politics and government 1789-1820

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Repressive 1790's -- Chapter one. Plots Discovered -- Chapter two. Close Confinement -- Chapter three. Hell Broth -- Chapter four. “By force, or openly, what could be done?” -- Chapter five. “I cannot tell” -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book argues that the British government's repression of the 1790's rivals the French Revolution as the most important historical event for our understanding the development of Romantic literature. Romanticism has long been associated with both rebellion and escapism, and much Romantic historicism traces an arc from the outburst of democratic energy in British culture triggered by the French Revolution to a dwindling of enthusiasm later in the 1790's, when things in France turned violent. Writers such as Wordsworth and Coleridge can then be seen as "apostates" who turned from radical politics to a poetics of transcendence. Bugg argues instead for a poetics of silence, and his book is set against the backdrop of the so-called Gagging Acts and other legislation of William Pitt, which in literature manifests itself stylistically as silence, stuttering, fragmentation, and encoding. Mining archives of unpublished



documents, including manuscripts, diaries, and letters, where authors were more candid, as well as rereading the work of both major and minor figures, a number of whom were subject to prison sentences, Five Long Winters offers a new way of approaching the literature of the Romantic era.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790231103321

Autore

Stuart Donald

Titolo

The struggle for Persia / / Donald Stuart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-84126-1

1-280-68460-7

1-136-84127-X

9786613661548

0-203-83315-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Iran ; ; vol. 8

Disciplina

915.5044

Soggetti

Eastern question (Central Asia)

Iran Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1902 by Methuen & Co.

Nota di contenuto

THE STRUGGLE FOR PERSIA; Copyright; THE STRUGGLE FOR PERSIA; Copyright; CONTENTS; CHAPTER I: ""EASTWARD H O ! ""; CHAPTER II: ODESSA AND THE CRIMEA; CHAPTER III: THE BLACK SEA (AFOU, SUCHUM, ETC.); CHAPTER IV: BATOUM (THE PLAGUE); CHAPTER V: TIFLIS; CHAPTER VI: FAREWELL CIVILISATION (A RUSSIAN POST HOUSE]; CHAPTER VII: WE JOLT OUR WEARY LENGTH ALONG; CHAPTER VIII: THE LAND OF THE LION AND THE SUN; CHAPTER IX: TAZA-KAND (DREADFUL EXPERIENCES); CHAPTER X: TABRIZ; CHAPTER XI: A DAY'S SHOOTING; CHAPTER XII: A VERMIN DISTRICT; CHAPTER XIII: THE KAFLAN-KUH; CHAPTER XIV: TEHERAN

CHAPTER XV: TEHERAN-(Continued)CHAPTER XVI: THE PEACOCK THRONE; CHAPTER XVII: THE SHAH'S ARMY; CHAPTER XVIII: THE



RUSSIAN OCTOPUS; CHAPTER XIX: RAILWAY ENTERPRISE; CHAPTER XX: How IT ALL CAME ABOUT; CHAPTER XXI: MESHED AND BUSHIRE (TURQUOISE AND PEARL); CHAPTER XXII: WHAT THE FUTURE WILL BRING FORTH; CHAPTER XXIII: THROUGH ""HOLY RUSSIA""; CHAPTER XXIV: ENGLAND TO THE RESCUE

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is an account of the journey the author made between Eastern Russia (via Tabriz) to Teheran at the turn of the twentieth century. This is not just a travelogue, however, but a lament for the loss of British "prestige" and power in the region to Russia.