Real Money and Romanticism

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Rowlinson is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario, where he teaches in the Department of English and at the Centre for Theory and Criticism. Klappentext Shows how a new conception of money and intellectual property shaped Romantic conceptions of character! material culture! and labor. Zusammenfassung Modern systems of paper money and intellectual property became established in the Romantic period. Matthew Rowlinson shows how a new conception of material artefacts as the bearers of abstract value shaped Romantic conceptions of character! material culture! and labor. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: real money; 1. 'The Scotch hate gold': British identity and paper money; 2. Curiosities and the money form in the Waverley novels; Notes on the text of the Waverley novels; 3. Keats in the hidden abode of production; 4. Reading capital with Little Nell; 5. 'To exist in a kind of allegory'; Appendix: copyright and authorial labor in eighteenth-century Britain.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Rowlinson, Matthew (University of Western Ontario) Rowlinson, Rowlinson Matthew
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.05.2010
• EAN: 9780521193795
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19379-5
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romantici; Cambridge Studies in Romanticism; Cambridge Studies in Romantici
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Englisch, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter