Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Protest and Economic Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781316638859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 327 str.

E. J. Clery

Opis

A wide-ranging analysis of the economic crisis of 1811 through the lens of a controversial poem.

Recenzje

'… Clery produces masterful scholarship, artistically crafted. This immensely satisfying book is a model of superb research and the most illuminating rendering to date of the poem and its significance.' Scott Krawczyk, Keats-Shelley Journal

Spis treści

Introduction: the puzzle and the myth; Part I. The Making of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: 1. Economic warfare; 2. Writing for the enemy; 3. Commercial dissent; 4. Stoic patriotism; 5. The prophet motive; 6. Ruin: doing the policy in different voices; 7. Lady credit; Part II. What Happened Next: 8. Publication to vindication: a chronology; 9. The summer of 1812 and after; Conclusion.