Romantic Sociability

Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770–1840

Clara Tuite editor Gillian Russell editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:20th Apr '06

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This 2002 volume explores the often overlooked social networks of Romantic figures.

Challenging the assumptions which underlie an understanding of the 'Romantics' as solitary and anti-sociable, this 2002 volume introduces sociability to the field of Romantic literary and cultural studies. In a range of essays the volume transforms our understanding of Romanticism by exploring the often overlooked social networks of Romantic figures.Challenging the assumptions which underlie an understanding of the 'Romantics' as solitary and anti-sociable, and Romanticism as representing the rejection of Enlightenment sociability, this 2002 volume introduces sociability to the field of Romantic literary and cultural studies. The volume engages with Jurgen Habermas' model of the 'public sphere' which emphasizes the coffee-house and club as models of an older, masculine eighteenth-century sociability, and focuses on the changing nature of sociability in British radical culture of the 1790s and on the gendered nature of sociability. In a range of essays which examine modes of sociability as diverse as circles of sedition, international republicanism, Dissenting culture, Romantic lecturing, theatre, and shopping, the volume transforms our understanding of Romanticism by exploring the social networks of such central Romantic figures as Anna Barbauld, Frances Burney, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Godwin, William Hazlitt, Anne Lister, Robert Merry, Joseph Priestley, John Thelwall and Mary Wollstonecraft.

'[a] rich collection of essays …'. British Association of Romantic Studies Bulletin

ISBN: 9780521026093

Dimensions: 228mm x 151mm x 16mm

Weight: 414g

280 pages