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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2013
Print publication year:
2013
Online ISBN:
9781139245937
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139245937
Subjects:
Literature, History of Ideas, English Literature 1700-1830, Politics and International Relations
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (100)
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Book description

In this important and innovative study, Jon Klancher shows how the Romantic age produced a new discourse of the 'Arts and Sciences' by reconfiguring the Enlightenment's idea of knowledge and by creating new kinds of cultural institutions with unprecedented public impact. He investigates the work of poets, lecturers, moral philosophers, scientists and literary critics - including Coleridge, Godwin, Bentham, Davy, Wordsworth, Robinson, Shelley and Hunt - and traces their response to book collectors and bibliographers, art-and-science administrators, painters, engravers, natural philosophers, radical journalists, editors and reviewers. Taking a historical and cross-disciplinary approach, he opens up Romantic literary and critical writing to transformations in the history of science, history of the book, art history, and the little-known history of arts-and-sciences administration that linked early-modern projects to nineteenth- and twentieth-century modes of organizing 'knowledges'. His conclusions transform the ways we think about knowledge, both in the Romantic period and in our own.

Reviews

'… one of the most ambitious and illuminating of recent studies …'

Paul Keen Source: Huntington Library Quarterly

'… Klancher establishes the prehistory to our current understanding of the liberal arts … [His] study allows us to see how crucial the Romantic era was to the development of the modern public sphere …'

Adela Pinch Source: SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900

'Consistently interesting and closely researched …'

Adrian Tait Source: British Society for Literature and Science (bsls.ac.uk)

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