2009, ISBN: 0804762287

[EAN: 9780804762281], Neubuch, [PU: Stanford University Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. British State Romanticism contends that changing definitions of state pow… More...

[EAN: 9780804762281], Neubuch, [PU: Stanford University Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. 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.<

2009, ISBN: 0804762287

[EAN: 9780804762281], Neubuch, [PU: Stanford University Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. British State Romanticism contends that changing definitions of state pow… More...

[EAN: 9780804762281], Neubuch, [PU: Stanford University Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. 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.<

ISBN: 9780804762281

British State Romanticism examines how late Romantic writers rethought aesthetics and agency in order to take part in a modernizing British state. History History eBook, Stanford Univers… More...

British State Romanticism examines how late Romantic writers rethought aesthetics and agency in order to take part in a modernizing British state. History History eBook, Stanford University Press<

ISBN: 9780804762281

British State Romanticism examines how late Romantic writers rethought aesthetics and agency in order to take part in a modernizing British state. History History eBook, Stanford Universi… More...

British State Romanticism examines how late Romantic writers rethought aesthetics and agency in order to take part in a modernizing British state. History History eBook, Stanford University Press<

ISBN: 9780804762281

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