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Conversable worlds : literature, contention, and community 1762 to 1830 /

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Examines the emergence of the conversation of culture that arose with a new commercial society in Britain and its influence on the idea and practice of English literature.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mee, Jon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Conversation in literature.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Conversation dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Conversation in literature
English literature
Konversation
Literatur
Englisch.
1700-1899
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : opening gambit
  • Some paradigms of conversability in the eighteenth century
  • Proliferating worlds, 1762-1790
  • Critical conversation in the 1790s : Godwin, Hays, and Wollstonecraft
  • 'Language really used by men' : Cowper, Coleridge, and Wordsworth
  • Jane Austen and the hazard of conversation
  • Hazlitt, Hunt, and cockney conversability
  • Epilogue.