British state romanticism [[electronic resource] ] : authorship, agency, and bureaucratic nationalism / / Anne Frey

• Autore: Frey Anne <1972->
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/35841
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Literature and state - Great Britain; Nationalism and literature - Great Britain; Romanticism - Great Britain
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: British state romanticism
• ISBN: 0-8047-7348-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459330903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II