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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2018
      January 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108333115
      9781108420310
      9781108413688
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333115
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 246 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 248 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (118)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (118)
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    Anxieties about decline were a prominent feature of British public discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. These anxieties were borne out repeatedly in books and periodicals, pamphlets and poems. Tracing the reciprocal development of Romantic-era Britain's rapidly expanding literary and market cultures through the lens of decline, Jonathan Sachs offers a fresh way of understanding British Romanticism. The book focuses on three aspects of literary experience - questions of value, the fascination with ruins, and the representation of slow time - to explore how shifting conceptions of progress and change inform a post-enlightenment sense of cultural decline. Combining close readings of Romantic literary texts with an examination of works from political economy, historical writing, classical studies, and media history the book reveals for the first time how anxieties about decline impacted literary form and shaped Romantic debates about poetry and the meaning of literature.

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    '… themes of decline have been downplayed in Romantic-period studies. [Sachs'] thorough, elegant monograph redresses this neglect … Highly recommended.'

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