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James Chandler

England in 1819

The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism

606 pages, 7 halftones  6 x 9  © 1998

Cloth $46.00

ISBN: 9780226101088   Published April 1998

Paper $28.00

ISBN: 9780226101095   Published June 1999

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List of Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: Works and Days
Pt. 1: The "Historical Situation" of Romanticism
Ch. 1: Specificity after Structuralism: Dating the "Return to History"
Ch. 2: An Art of the State: Historicism and the Measures of Uneven Development
Ch. 3: Representing Culture, Romanticizing Contradiction: The Politics of Literary Exemplarity
Ch. 4: Altering the Case: The Invention of the Historical Situation
Pt. 2: Reading England in 1819
Ch. 5: Reopening the Case of Scott
Ch. 6: Byron's Causes: The Moral Mechanics of Don Juan
Ch. 7: An "1819 Temper": Keats and the History of Psyche
Ch. 8: Concerning the Influence of America on the Mind: Western Settlements, "English Writers," and the Case of U.S. Culture
Ch. 9: The Case of "The Case of Shelley"
Ch. 10: History's Lyre: The "West Wind" and the Poet's Work
Index
Awards
  • PROSE Book Award Honorable Mention
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