Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840

by Clara Tuite

Book Overview

Challenging the assumptions which underlie an understanding of the Romantics as solitary and anti-sociable, this volume introduces sociability to the field of Romantic literary and cultural studies. The volume focuses in particular on sociability in British radical culture of the 1790s as it moved away from eighteenth-century ideas of a masculine public sphere, and on the gendered nature of sociability. In a range of essays the volume transforms our...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521770688
• ISBN13: 9780521770682
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"