03610nam 2200661Ia 450 991045933090332120200520144314.00-8047-7348-310.1515/9780804773485(CKB)2670000000014940(EBL)515312(OCoLC)609863135(SSID)ssj0000357386(PQKBManifestationID)11238947(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000357386(PQKBWorkID)10359271(PQKB)11218684(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127872(MiAaPQ)EBC515312(DE-B1597)564957(DE-B1597)9780804773485(PPN)158029992(Au-PeEL)EBL515312(CaPaEBR)ebr10379968(OCoLC)1178769736(EXLCZ)99267000000001494020090720d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBritish state romanticism[electronic resource] authorship, agency, and bureaucratic nationalism /Anne FreyStanford, Calif. Stanford University Pressc20101 online resource (215 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-6228-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Literature and the State in Post-Napoleonic Britain -- 1. Fragment Poems and Fragment Nations: The Aesthetics of Ireland in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Late Work -- 2. Wordsworth’s Establishment Poetics -- 3. Speaking for the Law: State Agency in Scott’s Novels -- 4. A Nation Without Nationalism: The Reorganization of Feeling in Austen’s Persuasion -- 5. De Quincey’s Imperial Systems -- Notes -- Index British State Romanticism contends that changing definitions of state power in the late Romantic period propelled authors to revisit the work of literature as well as the profession of authorship. Traditionally, critics have seen the Romantics as imaginative geniuses and viewed the supposedly less imaginative character of their late work as evidence of declining abilities. Frey argues, in contrast, that late Romanticism offers an alternative aesthetic model that adjusts authorship to work within an expanding and bureaucratizing state. She examines how Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, Scott, and De Quincey portray specific state and imperial agencies to debate what constituted government power, through what means government penetrated individual lives, and how non-governmental figures could assume government authority. Defining their work as part of an expanding state, these writers also reworked Romantic structures such as the imagination, organic form, and the literary sublime to operate through state agencies and to convey membership in a nation.English literature19th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and stateGreat BritainNationalism and literatureGreat BritainRomanticismGreat BritainElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and stateNationalism and literatureRomanticism820.9/35841Frey Anne1972-1055685MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459330903321British state romanticism2489271UNINA