The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism

ISBN-13: 9781108413688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 246 str.

Jonathan Sachs

Opis

This book provides a historically-nuanced account of anxieties about decline in Romantic-era Britain. Combining close readings of Romantic literary texts with study of works from political economy, historical writing, classical studies, and media history Jonathan Sachs offers, through the lens of decline, a new way of understanding British Romanticism.

Recenzje

'… themes of decline have been downplayed in Romantic-period studies. [Sachs'] thorough, elegant monograph redresses this neglect … Highly recommended.' N. Birns, Choice

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. From morals to measurement: scaling time, anticipating the future, and quantifying decline in Gibbon, Smith and Playfair; 2. The decline of literature: acceleration, print saturation, and media time; 3. The politics of prediction: Anna Barbauld and the ruins of London; 4. On ruins: contingency, time parallax, and 'the ruined cottage'; 5. Coleridge's slow time; 6. Fast time, slow time, deep time: the pace of romanticism.