Disaffected Parties
Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760-1830
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 March 2019
- ISBN 9780198833130
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 241x165x24 mm
- Weight 634 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 Illustrations 0
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Short description:
A study of English literary culture in the period between 1760 and 1830 which explores signs of modern disenchanted attitudes towards politics.
MoreLong description:
Disaffected Parties reveals how alienation from politics effected crucial changes to the shape and status of literary form. Recovering the earliest expressions of grumbling, irritability, and cynicism towards politics, this study asks how unsettled partisan legacies converged with more recent discontents to forge a seminal period in the making of English literature, and thereby poses wide-ranging questions about the lines between politics and aesthetics. Reading works including Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, James Boswell's Life of Johnson, the novels of Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen, and the satirical poetry of Lord Byron in tandem with print culture and partisan activity, this book shows how these writings remained animated by disaffected impulses and recalcitrant energies at odds with available party positions and emerging governmental norms—even as they sought to imagine perspectives that looked beyond the divided political world altogether.
'No one can be more sick of-or indifferent to politics than I am' Lord Byron wrote in 1820. Between the later eighteenth century and the Romantic age, disaffected political attitudes acquired increasingly familiar shapes. Yet this was also a period of ferment in which unrest associated with the global age of revolutions (including a dynamic transatlantic opposition movement) collided with often inchoate assemblages of parties and constituencies. As writers adopted increasingly emphatic removes from the political arena and cultivated familiar stances of cynicism, detachment, and retreat, their estrangement also promised to loop back into political engagement-and to make their works 'parties' all their own.
John Owen Havard's new book, Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760-1830, offers a thoughtful and searching account of the relationship between this dis-word cloud and the political terrain of the Romantic period, after 1760 and into the early 1820s with Byron.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction: Sick of Politics
Disaffected Parties, 1688-1832
Tristram Shandy and the Divided Worlds of Politics
Literary Leviathans: Johnson, Boswell, and the 1790s
Burke, Edgeworth, and Ireland's Discontents
Austen and the Cultural Logic of Late Toryism
Byron's Opposition
Conclusion
