Romantic metropolis : the urban scene of British culture, 1780-1840
These 2005 essays challenge the traditional conception that British Romanticism was rooted in rural life, by showing that much of what was new about Romanticism was born in the city. Some of the most exciting critics of Romanticism do long-overdue justice to the place of the city in British Romanticism.
Print Book, English, 2005
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.], 2005
XIII, 291 p. ill., részben térk. 24 cm
9780521839013, 0521839017
1015107286
Introduction: engaging the eidometropolis James Chandler and Kevin Gilmartin; Part I. Metropolis, Nation, and Empire: 1. Edinburgh, capital of the nineteenth century Ian Duncan; 2. Discriminations, or Romantic cosmopolitanisms in London Jon Klancher; Part II. Urban Radicalism and Reform: 3. London and the London Corresponding Society John Barrell; 4. Blake's metropolitan radicalism Saree Makdisi; 5. Envy rising Frances Ferguson; Part III. Metropolitan Spectacle: 6. Urbanity and the spectacle of art Ann Bermingham; 7. Mystagogues of revolution: Cagliostro, de Loutherbourg and Romantic London Iain McCalman; 8. 'The Temple lives': the Lyceum and Romantic show business Simon During; Part IV. The New Poetics of Urban Publicity: 9. Manufacturing the Romantic image: Hazlitt and Coleridge lecturing Peter Manning; 10. The artifactual sublime: making London poetry Anne Janowitz; 11. Venice Celeste Langan.