Remediating the 1820s /

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

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 prov...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 8 B/W illustrations 8 black and white illustrations
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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

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