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Dialectics of Improvement

Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvGerard Lee McKeever

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This book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish context. With chapter case studies covering poetry, short fiction, drama and the novel, it examines a range of key writers: Robert Burns, James Hogg, Walter Scott, Joanna Baillie and John Galt. Improvement, as the book explores, provided a dominant theme for literary texts in this period, just as it saturated the wider culture. It was also of real consequence to questions about what literature is and what it can do: a medium of secular belonging, a vehicle of indefinite exchange, an educational tool or a theoretical guide to history.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-12-29
Mått156 x 234 x 26 mm
Vikt362 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism
Antal sidor232
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474441681
UtmärkelserWinner of British Association of Romantic Studies First Book Prize 2021

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Gerard Lee McKeever is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. He has published a range of scholarship on eighteenth and early nineteenth-century literature, with articles in leading journals including Studies in Romanticism and a book co-edited with Alex Benchimol (Routledge, 2018). He is the author of Dialectics of Improvement (EUP 2020).