Conversable worlds literature, contention, and community 1762 to 1830
Title:
Conversable worlds literature, contention, and community 1762 to 1830
Author:
Mee, Jon.
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9780191618727
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Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 315 p.) : ill.
Contents:
Introduction : opening gambit -- Some paradigms of conversability in the eighteenth century -- Proliferating worlds, 1762-1790 -- Critical conversation in the 1790s : Godwin, Hays, and Wollstonecraft -- 'Language really used by men' : Cowper, Coleridge, and Wordsworth -- Jane Austen and the hazard of conversation -- Hazlitt, Hunt, and cockney conversability -- Epilogue.
Abstract:
Examines the emergence of the conversation of culture that arose with a new commercial society in Britain and its influence on the idea and practice of English literature.
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