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Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention, and Community 1762 to 1830
Mee, Jon (Professor of Romanticism Studies, University of Warwick)
Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention, and Community 1762 to 1830
Mee, Jon (Professor of Romanticism Studies, University of Warwick)
Around 1700 a new commercial society was emerging that thought of its values as the product of exchanges between citizens. A welter of publications-periodical essays, novels, and poetry-enjoined the virtues of conversation and were enthusiastically discussed in book clubs and literary societies, creating their own conversable worlds.
336 pages, 11 black-and-white halftones
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | September 15, 2011 |
ISBN13 | 9780199591749 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Dimensions | 139 × 222 × 24 mm · 540 g |