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Dialectics of Improvement

Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831
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Description

This book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish context. With chapter case studies covering poetry, short fiction, drama and the novel, it examines a range of key writers: Robert Burns, James Hogg, Walter Scott, Joanna Baillie and John Galt. Improvement, as the book explores, provided a dominant theme for literary texts in this period, just as it saturated the wider culture. It was also of real consequence to questions about what literature is and what it can do: a medium of secular belonging, a vehicle of indefinite exchange, an educational tool or a theoretical guide to history.

Author Biography:

Gerard Lee McKeever, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow.
Release date Australia
December 29th, 2021
Pages
232
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Dimensions
156x234x12
ISBN-13
9781474441681
Product ID
35224109

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