An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832
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Description
For the first time, this innovative reference book surveys the Romantic Age through all aspects of British culture, rather than in literary or artistic terms alone. This multi-disciplinary approach treats Romanticism both in aesthetic terms--its meaning for painting, music, design, architecture, and literature--and as a historical epoch of "revolutionary" transformations which ushered in modern democratic and industrialized society.
Product Details
Price
$109.25
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Publish Date
September 06, 2001
Pages
796
Dimensions
6.78 X 9.7 X 1.68 inches | 3.41 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780199245437
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About the Author
Kate Fullagar is a senior lecturer in modern history at Macquarie University. She is the author of The Savage Visit: New World People and Popular Imperial Culture in Britain, 1710-1795.
Iain McCalman is a historian with a strong sense of how narrative transforms us. His most recent books are Darwin's Armada (2009) and The Reef- A Passionate History (2013), both highly acclaimed and prizewinning. Iain has recently retired from academic life. He was Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney.
Jon Mee is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York. He has held visiting fellowships in Australia, India and the United States. His books include Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (Oxford University Press, 1992), Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (Oxford, 2003), Conversable Words: Literature, Contention, and Community 1762-1832 (Oxford, 2011) and Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s (Cambridge University Press, 2016). He co-edited The Spirit of Controversy, a selection of William Hazlitt's essays, with James Grande for Oxford World's Classics in 2021. He is currently completing a book on cultural networks in the Industrial Revolution for the University of Chicago Press, due to be published in Fall 2023. The research for the book was supported by a British Academy-Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship. He has also co-edited another collection of essays with Matthew Sangster: Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900 (Cambridge, 2022).
Reviews
"Richly varied....well-written....Oxford's comprehensiveness renders it superior. For all collections with an academic constituency."--Choice"Assembles an international team of experts, from fields as diverse as political history, popular culture, literature, religion, and medicine in order to create a broad reference work on the Romantic age in Britain....The essays themselves are of high quality and reflect the latest scholarship....Of particular interest are references to the people and institutions that make up the "radical" religious and political movements of the era....A valuable reference tool."--Library Journal"I am confident that An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age will quickly establish itself as the premier reference source of its kind in the field.... The strategic use of over 100 illustrations throughout this generally handsome volume makes it a pleasure to simply browse through.... [An] unprecedented wealth of scholarly expertise on the Romantic period."--Alex Benchimol, Romantic Circles Review"This is not only an invaluable source of information on a dazzling range of topics, but also a volume bristling with ideas--and ideals. There is an explicitly radical, polemical edge to many of the contributions, and if these essays and entries provoke the active engagement of the reader rather than merely delivering knowledge with an air of unchallengeable authority, they are more than upholding the spirit of the age that is under debate."--Review of English Studies"It is a monument not only to the age but to the division of intellectual labor, which humbles any reviewer who would attempt adequately to engage the work of its array of forty-two specialist contributors."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
