Literature and Society in Eighteenth-Century England: Ideology, Politics and Culture, 1680-1820

W.A. Speck (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

1998
Longman (Verlag)
978-0-582-26570-7 (ISBN)

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This is a broad-ranging study on the 18th century, using a variety of contemporary literary texts as historical evidence to explain the dominant ideologies and attitudes of the time and considering the implications on policy of an increasingly news-conscious and articulate society.

A broad-ranging study by one of the leading authorities on the "long eighteenth-century" which uses a huge variety of contemporary literary texts as historical evidence to explain the dominant ideologies and attitudes of the time. In the process Professor Speck advances current debates concerning continuity and change in the eighteenth century, and considers the implications on policy of an increasingly news conscious and articulate society.

Introduction

PART ONE: THE FIRST AGE OF PARTY: 1680-1720

1. The First Age of Party.
2. Poems on affairs of State.
3. Party Ideology and Society.

PART TWO: THE CLASSICAL AGE OF THE CONSTITUTION 1720-1788

4. The Classical Age of the Constitution.
5. Jacobitism and Patriotism.
6. The Emergence of the Novel.
7. Literature and Law and Order.

PART THREE: THE AGE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 1789-1820

8. The Breakdown of the Constitutional Consensus.
9. Novels and the War of Ideas.
10. Poems on the State of Affairs.

Conclusion.
Select Bibliography.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.5.1998
Reihe/Serie	Themes In British Social History
Verlagsort	Harlow
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 216 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-582-26570-3 / 0582265703
ISBN-13	978-0-582-26570-7 / 9780582265707
Zustand	Neuware