Remediating the 1820s
1st Edition
Published on 31. January 2023
304 pages
978-1-4744-9329-1 (ISBN)
Description
Reconsiders the 1820s, an unjustly neglected, highly self-conscious decade defined by massive and anxiety-inducing cultural transformations
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Jon Mee | Matthew Sangster
Remediating the 1820s
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11/2022
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- A Chronology of the 1820s
- Introduction
- 1. Truth, Fiction and Breaking News: Theodore Hook and the Poyais Speculation
- 2. The Surfaces of History: Scott's Turn, 1820
- Keyword: Power
- Keyword: Diffusion
- 3. Feeding the 1820s: Bread, Beer and Anxiety
- 4. Light and Darkness: The Magic Lantern at the Dawn of Media
- Keyword: Performance
- Keyword: Surveillance
- 5. Paul Pry and Elizabeth Fry: Inspection and Spectatorship in the Social Theatre of the 1820s
- 6. Regional News in 'Peacetime': The Dumfries and Galloway Courier in the 1820s
- Keyword: Liberal
- Keyword: Emigration
- 7. (Re)settling Poetry: The Culture of Reprinting and the Poetics of Emigration in the 1820s Southern Settler Colonies
- 8. 'Innovation and Irregularity': Religion, Poetry and Song in the 1820s
- Keyword: March of Intellect
- Keyword: Doubt
- 9. The Decade of the Dialogue
- 10. Butterfly Books and Gilded Flies: Poetry and the Annual
- 11. 'Still but an Essayist': Carlyle's Early Essays and Late-Romantic Periodical Culture
- Index
