The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism

by Jonathan Sachs

Book Overview

Anxieties about decline were a prominent feature of British public discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. These anxieties were borne out repeatedly in books and periodicals, pamphlets and poems. Tracing the reciprocal development of Romantic-era Britain's rapidly expanding literary and market cultures through the lens of decline, Jonathan Sachs offers a fresh way of understanding British Romanticism. The book focuses on three...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108413684
• ISBN13: 9781108413688
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"