Remaking Romanticism: The Radical Politics of the Excerpt

by Casie Legette

This book shows that the publishers and editors of the radical press deployed Romantic-era texts for their own political ends--and for their largely working-class readership--long after those works' original publication. It examines how the literature of the British Romantic period was excerpted and reprinted in radical political papers in Britain in the nineteenth century. The agents of this story were bound by neither the chronological march...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319469282
• ISBN13: 9783319469287
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.7"