03655nam 2200637 450 991081629200332120200520144314.00-8047-8730-110.1515/9780804787307(CKB)3710000000055774(SSID)ssj0001040587(PQKBManifestationID)12389474(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001040587(PQKBWorkID)11001580(PQKB)11491129(StDuBDS)EDZ0000234278(DE-B1597)564227(DE-B1597)9780804787307(Au-PeEL)EBL1543729(CaPaEBR)ebr10796968(OCoLC)862614113(OCoLC)1178768951(MiAaPQ)EBC1543729(EXLCZ)99371000000005577420130702d2013 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrFive long winters the trials of British Romanticism /John BuggStanford, California :Stanford University Press,2013.1 online resource (xii, 246 pages) illustrations (black and white)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8047-8510-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexThis 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 Mining archives of unpublished documents, including manuscripts, diaries, and letters, where authors were more candid, as well as rereading the work of both major and minor figures, a number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.Authors, English18th centuryPolitical and social viewsEnglish literature18th centuryHistory and criticismPolitics and literatureEnglandHistory18th centuryRomanticismEnglandGreat BritainPolitics and government1789-1820Authors, EnglishPolitical and social views.English literatureHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistoryRomanticism820.9/35841073Bugg John W.1972-1687145MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816292003321Five long winters4060387UNINA