Cultural Politics in the 1790s: Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere

by Andrew McCann

Book Overview

Cultural Politics in the 1790s examines the relationship between sentimental literature, political activism and the public sphere at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on critical theorists such as Habermas, Negt and Kluge, Marcuse and Foucault, it attempts to demonstrate how major literary and political figures of the 1790s can be read in terms of the broader dynamics of modernity. Reading a diverse range of political and literary material...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349408204
• ISBN13: 9781349408207
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"