LEADER 03873nam 22007932 450 001 9910778866703321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-11767-4 010 $a0-511-00384-6 010 $a1-280-15388-1 010 $a0-511-11782-5 010 $a0-511-14962-X 010 $a0-511-30977-5 010 $a0-511-48433-X 010 $a0-511-04840-8 035 $a(CKB)111004366731772 035 $a(EBL)142415 035 $a(OCoLC)475870369 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000132508 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11132202 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000132508 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10038655 035 $a(PQKB)10484033 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511484339 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC142415 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL142415 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr2000676 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL15388 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366731772 100 $a20090224d1999|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe crisis of literature in the 1790s $eprint culture and the public sphere /$fPaul Keen$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 299 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in Romanticism ;$v36 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-02722-5 311 $a0-521-65325-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index. 327 $tIntroduction problems now and then --$tRepublic of letters --$tMen of letters --$tPreamble swinish multitudes --$tpoorer sort --$tMasculine women --$tOriental literature --$tConclusion romantic revisions. 330 $aThis book offers an original study of the debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature. Paul Keen shows how these debates were situated at the intersection of the French Revolution and a more gradual revolution in information and literacy reflecting the aspirations of the professional classes in eighteenth-century England. He shows these movements converging in hostility to a new class of readers, whom critics saw as dangerously subject to the effects of seditious writings or the vagaries of literary fashion. The first part of the book concentrates on the dominant arguments about the role of literature and the status of the author; the second shifts its focus to the debates about working-class activists, radical women authors, and the Orientalists, and examines the growth of a Romantic ideology within this context of political and cultural turmoil. 410 0$aCambridge studies in Romanticism ;$v36. 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature$xPublic opinion$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aAuthorship$xPublic opinion$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aBooks and reading$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aRomanticism$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aPrinting$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$y1789-1820 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature$xPublic opinion$xHistory 615 0$aAuthorship$xPublic opinion$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aRomanticism$xHistory 615 0$aPrinting$xHistory 676 $a820.9/006 700 $aKeen$b Paul$f1963-$0975992 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778866703321 996 $aThe crisis of literature in the 1790s$93715305 997 $aUNINA