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Cultural Politics in the 1790s

Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Andrew McCann

    1. Department of English, University of Queensland, Australia

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Part of the book series: Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories (ROPTCH)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Literature and the Public Sphere in the 1790s

    • Andrew McCann
    Pages 1-32

  3. Edmund Burke’s Immortal Law: Reading the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, 1788

    • Andrew McCann
    Pages 33-58

  4. William Godwin and the Pathological Public Sphere: Theorizing Communicative Action in the 1790s

    • Andrew McCann
    Pages 59-82

  5. Politico-Sentimentality: John Thelwall, Literary Production and the Critique of Capital in the 1790s

    • Andrew McCann
    Pages 83-106

  6. Gothic Consumption: Populism, Consumerism and the Discipline of Reading

    • Andrew McCann
    Pages 107-144

  7. Domestic Revolutions: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Limits of Radical Sentimentality

    • Andrew McCann
    Pages 145-180

  8. Conjugal Love and the Enlightenment Subject: the Colonial Context of Non-identity in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda

    • Andrew McCann
    Pages 181-206

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 207-226
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Cultural Politics in the 1790s examines the relationship between sentimental literature, political activism and the public sphere at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on critical theorists such as Habermas, Negt and Kluge, Marcuse and Foucault, it attempts to demonstrate how major literary and political figures of the 1790s can be read in terms of the broader dynamics of modernity. Reading a diverse range of political and literary material from the period, it examines how relationships between the aesthetic and the political, the private and the public, mark the emergence and consolidation of bourgeois behavioural norms and the simultaneous marginalization of potentially more radical forms of political and cultural production.

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...Cultural Politics in the 1790s is both accomplished and promising. Studies in Romanticism

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  • Department of English, University of Queensland, Australia

    Andrew McCann

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ANDREW McCANN teaches in the English Department at the University of Queensland.

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