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999			_c64935 _d64935
008			200525b2018 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9781108420310
082			_a820.9145 SAC-J
100			_aSachs, Jonathan
245			_aTHe poetics of decline in british romanticism / _cJonathan Sachs
260			_aUK _bCambrdige _c2018
300			_a226 p.
365			_aGBP _b75.00
500			_a"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 aspects of literary experience--questions of value, the fascination of ruins, and the representation of slow time--to explore how shifting conceptions of progress and change inform a post-Enlightenment sense of cultural decline. Combining close readings of Romantic literary texts with an examination of works from political economy, historical writing, classical studies, and media history the book reveals for the first time how anxieties about decline impacted literary form and shaped Romantic debates about poetry and the meaning of literature."--The introductory preamble.
650			_aRomanticism
650			_aLiterature and society
650			_aRegression (Civilization)