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Informationen zum Autor E. J. Clery is professor of English Literature at the University of Southampton. Her publications include The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762–1800 (Cambridge, 1995), Women's Gothic from Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley (2000), The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England (2004) and Jane Austen: The Banker's Daughter (2017). In 2013 she was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Fellowship for the project 'Romantic-Era Women Writers and Economic Debate'. She lectures and broadcasts on eighteenth-century and Romantic literature, book history and the cultural history of economics. Klappentext A wide-ranging analysis of the economic crisis of 1811 through the lens of a controversial poem. Zusammenfassung A lively historical and biographical account of the economic crisis of 1811 which brought Britain to the brink of revolution! through analysis of a controversial protest poem by Anna Letitia Barbauld and works by Wordsworth! Coleridge and others. It is essential reading for readers interested in Romantic-era poetry in a political context. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the puzzle and the myth; Part I. The Making of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: 1. Economic warfare; 2. Writing for the enemy; 3. Commercial dissent; 4. Stoic patriotism; 5. The prophet motive; 6. Ruin: doing the policy in different voices; 7. Lady credit; Part II. What Happened Next: 8. Publication to vindication: a chronology; 9. The summer of 1812 and after; Conclusion.
