Refiguring revolutions : aesthetics and politics from the English revolution to the Romantic revolution / edited by Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sharpe, Kevin (Kevin M.)
Zwicker, Steven N.
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998], ©1998.
Subjects:
Revolutionary literature, English > History and criticism.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 19th century.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 18th century.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1603-1714.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History.
Revolutions > Great Britain > Historiography.
Literature and revolutions > History.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Revolutions in literature.
Aesthetics, British.
Physical Description:x, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : refiguring revolutions / Kevin Sharpe and Steven Zwicker
  • [Republic and monarchy]
  • "An image doting rabble" : the failure of republican culture in seventeenth-century England / Kevin Sharpe
  • Queen Anne makes provision / Toni Bowers
  • Sad stories : Louis XVI, George III, and the language of sentiment / John Barrell
  • [Reading and writing]
  • Reading the margins : politics and the habits of appropriation / Steven Zwicker
  • The politics of song in Wordsworth's Lyrical ballads / Gerald Izenberg
  • [Commerce and society]
  • Performing the passions in commercial society : Bernard Mandeville and the theatricality of eighteenth-century thought / Edward Hundert
  • "These neuter somethings" : gender difference and commercial culture in mid-eighteenth-century England / Harriet Guest
  • [Body and self]
  • Bathing and baptism : Sir John Floyer and the politics of cold bathing / Mark Jenner
  • Medicine, politics, and the body in late Georgian England / Roy Porter
  • [Nature and culture]
  • A natural revolution? Garden politics in eighteenth-century England / Stephen Bending
  • The pastoral revolution / Michael McKeon.