Literature and the party system in B...
Havard, John Owen.

 

  • Literature and the party system in Britain, 1760--1830.
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    書名/作者: Literature and the party system in Britain, 1760--1830.
    作者: Havard, John Owen.
    面頁冊數: 244 p.
    附註: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11(E), Section: A.
    Contained By: Dissertation Abstracts International74-11A(E).
    標題: Literature, English.
    標題: History, European.
    標題: Political Science, General.
    ISBN: 9781303228780
    摘要、提要註: "Literature and the Party System in Britain, 1760--1830" argues that the tumultuous and sharply divided political situation in Britain and its fracturing global Empire following the accession of George III precipitated dramatic and enduring changes in literary authorship. In asking how the interlocking perspectives of a diverse array of writers, thinkers, artists, and political actors confronted the inchoate status of "party," it reveals how a period that witnessed the disintegration of the existing party system---and the subsequent reinvention of "Whig" and "Tory" identities---compelled authors to imagine new forms for individual agency and collective belonging. By resituating the works of authors including Laurence Sterne, Samuel Johnson, Maria Edgeworth, and Lord Byron amidst a contested field of political debate---including works by Horace Walpole, Edmund Burke, David Hume, Adam Smith, and the satirist "Junius," as well as an expansive network of newspapers, pamphlets, and political expression---this dissertation reveals how literature came into focus as the site of innovative strategies for navigating, containing, overcoming, or otherwise reimagining party divides. Drawing on the historical legacies encoded within party identities inherited from the previous century and the aftereffects of the recent upheaval in the decades surrounding the American Revolution, these authors challenged newly repressive norms of governance, authority, and selfhood. In allowing us to disrupt undirectional accounts of the transition into the nineteenth century, their works enable us to plot alternative pathways through the Romantic age, and into our own divided present.
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