Literature and Society in Eighteenth-Century England: Ideology, Politics and Culture, 1680-1820

List of contents

Introduction
 
PART ONE: THE FIRST AGE OF PARTY: 1680-1720
 
1. The First Age of Party.
2. Poems on affairs of State.
3. Party Ideology and Society.
 
PART TWO: THE CLASSICAL AGE OF THE CONSTITUTION 1720-1788
 
4. The Classical Age of the Constitution.
5. Jacobitism and Patriotism.
6. The Emergence of the Novel.
7. Literature and Law and Order.
 
PART THREE: THE AGE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 1789-1820
 
8. The Breakdown of the Constitutional Consensus.
9. Novels and the War of Ideas.
10. Poems on the State of Affairs.
 
Conclusion.
Select Bibliography.

Summary

 This broad-ranging study by one of the leading authorities on the "long eighteenth-century" running from the late Stuarts to the age of Jane Austen and the Romantics uses a huge variety of literary texts to explain the dominant beliefs and attitudes of the time. It includes newspapers, pamphlets, diaries, prints, poetry, plays and the novel. and advances current debates concerning continuity and change in the eighteenth century. This lively and engaging book will be of equal interest to political and literary historians as to those primarily concerned with social history.

Product details

• Authors: W.A. Speck
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9780582265707
• ISBN: 978-0-582-26570-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Weight: 650 g
• Series: Themes In British Social History; Themes In British Social History
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries