The Romantic Crowd: Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture

ISBN-13: 9781107031692 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 312 str.

Mary Fairclough

Opis

A study of how the instinctive behaviour of crowds was understood by literary writers of the Romantic period.

Recenzje

'Detailed and nuanced …' The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Introduction: collective sympathy; Part I. Sympathetic Communication, 1750–1800: From Moral Philosophy to Revolutionary Crowds: 1. Sympathy and the crowd: eighteenth-century contexts; 2. Sympathetic communication and the French Revolution; Part II. Romantic Afterlives, 1800–50: Sympathetic Communication, Mass Protest and Print Culture: 3. Sympathy and the press: mass protest and print culture in Regency England; 4. 'The contagious sympathy of popular and patriotic emotions': sympathy and loyalism after Waterloo; Afterword: sympathy and the Romantic crowd; Select bibliography; Index.