The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series)

by Paul Keen

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This book offers an original study of debates that arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature and the new class of readers produced by the revolution in information and literacy in eighteenth-century England. The first part 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 and radical women authors, and examines...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521027225

ISBN13:9780521027229

Release Date:June 2006

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:316 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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