Remediating the 1820s / / ed. by Jon Mee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Atkin, Lara,; Dawson, Clara,; Duncan, Ian,; Esterhammer, Angela,; Fermanis, Porscha,; Fulford, Tim,; Gardner, John,; Grande, James,; Lodge, Sara,; McKeever, Gerard Lee,; Mee, Jon,; Middleton, Lindsay,; Roberts, Phillip,; Sangster, Matthew,; Stewart, David,; Toremans, Tom,
• HerausgeberIn: Mee, Jon,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSR
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 8 B/W illustrations 8 black and white illustrations

Reconsiders the 1820s, an unjustly neglected, highly self-conscious decade defined by massive and anxiety-inducing cultural transformations.Innovative essays cover a broad range of interdisciplinary topics, including book history, periodical culture, media forms, music, theatre, visual art, and provincial and colonial writingInterweaves short keyword essays providing additional insights into major concerns of the decade as expressed in the language of the timeThe product of a collaborative research process bringing together senior scholars and early-career researchersThe 1820s has commonly been overlooked in literary and cultural studies, seen as a barren interregnum between the achievements of Romanticism and the Victorian era proper, or, at best, as a time of transition bridging two major periods of cultural production. This volume contends that the innovations, fears and experiments of the 1820s are both of considerable interest in themselves and vital for comprehending how Victorian and Romantic culture wrote and visioned one another into being. Remediating the 1820s explores the decade’s own sense of itself as a period of expansion in terms of the projection of British power and knowledge, but also its tremendous uncertainty about where this left traditional identities and moral values. In doing so, the collection articulates how specific novelties, transformations and anxieties of the time remediated and remade culture and society in manners that continue powerfully to resonate.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- A Chronology of the 1820s -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Truth, Fiction and Breaking News: Theodore Hook and the Poyais Speculation -- Chapter 2 The Surfaces of History: Scott’s Turn, 1820 -- Keyword: Power -- Keyword: Diffusion -- Chapter 3 Feeding the 1820s: Bread, Beer and Anxiety -- Chapter 4 Light and Darkness: The Magic Lantern at the Dawn of Media -- Keyword: Performance -- Keyword: Surveillance -- Chapter 5 Paul Pry and Elizabeth Fry: Inspection and Spectatorship in the Social Theatre of the 1820s -- Chapter 6 Regional News in ‘Peacetime’: The Dumfries and Galloway Courier in the 1820s -- Keyword: Liberal -- Keyword: Emigration -- Chapter 7 (Re)settling Poetry: The Culture of Reprinting and the Poetics of Emigration in the 1820s Southern Settler Colonies -- Chapter 8 ‘Innovation and Irregularity’: Religion, Poetry and Song in the 1820s -- Keyword: March of Intellect -- Keyword: Doubt -- Chapter 9 The Decade of the Dialogue -- Chapter 10 Butterfly Books and Gilded Flies: Poetry and the Annual -- Chapter 11 ‘Still but an Essayist’: Carlyle’s Early Essays and Late-Romantic Periodical Culture -- Index