Gerard Lee McKeever

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Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831Hardcover, 3 March 2020

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Part of Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism
Print Length
232 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Date Published
3 Mar 2020
ISBN-10
147444167X
ISBN-13
9781474441674

Description

Explores the nature of Scottish Romanticism through its relationship to

improvement

  • Provides new insight into the concept of 'improvement'
  • Advances current thinking on Scottish Romanticism
  • Identifies how improvement was involved in key aesthetic innovations in the period
  • Includes case studies across poetry, short fiction, drama and the novel

This book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish context. With chapter case studies covering poetry, short fiction, drama and the novel, it examines a range of key writers: Robert Burns, James Hogg, Walter Scott, Joanna Baillie and John Galt. Improvement, as the book explores, provided a dominant theme for literary texts in this period, just as it saturated the wider culture. It was also of real consequence to questions about what literature is and what it can do: a medium of secular belonging, a vehicle of indefinite exchange, an educational tool or a theoretical guide to history.

Product Details

Author:
Gerard Lee McKeever
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
3 March 2020
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.42 cm
ISBN-10:
147444167X
ISBN-13:
9781474441674
Language:
English
Pages:
232
Weight:
503.49 gm

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