Britain's Bloodless Revolutions 1688 and the Romantic Reform of Literature

by Jarrells, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781137018670
• ISBN10: 1137018674
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-21
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Britain's Bloodless Revolutionsexplores the relationship of the emerging category of Literature to the emerging threat of popular violence after the Bloodless Revolution. The book argues that at a time when the political nature of the Bloodless Revolution became a subject of debate--in the period defined by France's famously bloody revolution--"Literature" emerged as a kind of political institutionand constituted a bloodless revolution in its own right.

Author Biography

Anthon Jarrells is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, USA. He is the editor of the 'Selected Prose' volume of Blackwood's Magazine, 1817-1825 (2006) and the author of articles and chapters published in Novel, Studies in Romanticism, A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age, Blackwood's Romanticism, and the Oxford History of the Novel in English, 1750-1820. Currently, he is working on a book about the Romantic-period tale.

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