LEADER 03655nam 2200637 450 001 9910816292003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8047-8730-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804787307 035 $a(CKB)3710000000055774 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001040587 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12389474 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001040587 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11001580 035 $a(PQKB)11491129 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000234278 035 $a(DE-B1597)564227 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804787307 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1543729 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10796968 035 $a(OCoLC)862614113 035 $a(OCoLC)1178768951 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1543729 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000055774 100 $a20130702d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFive long winters $ethe trials of British Romanticism /$fJohn Bugg 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 246 pages) $cillustrations (black and white) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8047-8510-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tFigures --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: The Repressive 1790's --$tChapter one. Plots Discovered --$tChapter two. Close Confinement --$tChapter three. Hell Broth --$tChapter four. ?By force, or openly, what could be done?? --$tChapter five. ?I cannot tell? --$tAfterword --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThis 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 Mining archives of unpublished documents, including manuscripts, diaries, and letters, where authors were more candid, as well as rereading the work of both major and minor figures, a number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. 606 $aAuthors, English$y18th century$xPolitical and social views 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aRomanticism$zEngland 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1789-1820 615 0$aAuthors, English$xPolitical and social views. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aRomanticism 676 $a820.9/35841073 700 $aBugg$b John W.$f1972-$01687145 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816292003321 996 $aFive long winters$94060387 997 $aUNINA