The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution

ISBN-13: 9781108470377 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 298 str.

Ian Newman

Opis

An examination of taverns in the Romantic period, with a particular focus on architecture and the culture of conviviality.

Recenzje

'The Romantic Tavern will likely change the way readers encounter written Romantic works.' John Savarese, European Romantic Review

Spis treści

Part I. Tavern Space: 1. Introduction; 2. London tavern: Edmund Burke, the East India Company and literary men; 3. Crown and anchor dreams: sedition in the Strand; Part II. Tavern Genres: 4. Political ballads: Captain Morris and the convivial Whigs; 5. Anacreontic odes: drink poetry and the politics of pleasure; 6. Bawdy and lyrical ballads: Wordsworth and the ballad debates of the 1790s; 7. Toasting: political speech, convivial art; 8. Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.