Print and Performance in the 1820s: Improvisation, Speculation, Identity

by Angela Esterhammer

Book Overview

During the 1820s, British society saw transformations in technology, mobility, and consumerism that accelerated the spread of information. This timely study reveals how bestselling literature, popular theatre, and periodical journalism self-consciously experimented with new media. It presents an age preoccupied with improvisation and speculation - a mode of behaviour that dominated financial and literary markets, generating reflections on risk, agency,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108493955
• ISBN13: 9781108493956
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"