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Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831

Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831

McKeever, Gerard Lee

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 147444167X
ISBN13: 9781474441674
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Mar 3 2020
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Explores the nature of Scottish Romanticism through its relationship to improvement

Provides new insight into the concept of 'improvement'Advances current thinking on Scottish RomanticismIdentifies how improvement was involved in key aesthetic innovations in the periodIncludes case studies across poetry, short fiction, drama and the novelThis 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.

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