The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere by Paul Keen, James Chandler, Marilyn Butler

The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

Paul Keen, James Chandler, Marilyn Butler

316 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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This book offers an original study of debates that arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature and the new class of readers produced by the revolution in information and literacy in eighteenth-century England. The first part ...

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