Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture'
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 March 2001
- ISBN 9780198185055
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages354 pages
- Size 224x145x24 mm
- Weight 539 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The Romantic age in Britain formed one of the most celebrated moments in literary history, but it also witnessed the rise of 'political economy' as the most prestigious science of nineteenth-century capitalist society. Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture' investigates this historical conjunction, and challenges the influential idea that Romantic writers such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley were implacably opposed to the abstract, individualistic view of human nature embodied in the new science of economics. This book is interdisciplinary in its scope and methods. It will be of interest to teachers and students of both English Literature and History.
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The Romantic age in Britain formed one of the most celebrated - and heterogeneous - moments in literary history, but it also witnessed the rise of 'political economy' as the pre-eminent nineteenth-century science of society. Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture' investigates this historical conjunction, and reassesses the idea that the Romantic defence of spiritual and humanistic 'culture' developed as a reaction to the individualistic, philistine values of the 'dismal science'.
Drawing on a wide range of source material, the book combines the methods of literary scholarship and intellectual history. It addresses the changing political identifications of familiar literary figures such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, but also illuminates the wider political and intellectual life of this period.
Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture' situates canonical Romantic writers within a nuanced, and highly detailed ideological context, while challenging our inherited understanding of the Romantic tradition itself as the social conscience of nineteenth-century capitalism.
[Connell's] book is persuasive because it is thick with evidence and always interested in exploring the large implications of the subtle shades of opinion he finds in the printed discussions of the era ... The persuasivenss of his work results from his Lovejoy-ish skepticism as well as his empirical and textual methodology, which anticipates counter-arguments. Romanticism becomes in the course of the investigation a shaky series of interlocking texts and oppositions.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: 'The Condition of England'
'A Deeper Nature': Malthus, Poetry and Political economy
Moral Culture and the March of Mind: Economics and Education in the Early Nineteenth Century
The Politics of Apostasy: Coleridge, Wordsworth and Lake School Literary Conservatism
Radicals, Reformers and Legislators of the World
Robert Southey and the Infections of Commerce
Conclusion: The Politics of Romanticism
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