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Politics and Emotions in Romantic Periodicals, 1st ed. 2019
Coordinators: Macleod Jock, Christie William, Denney Peter
Language: EnglishSubject for Politics and Emotions in Romantic Periodicals:
Publication date: 08-2021
244 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 01-2020
244 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Hardback
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This book comprises eleven essays by leading scholars of early nineteenth-century British literature and periodical culture. The collection addresses the many and varied links between politics and the emotions in Romantic periodicals, from the revolutionary decade of the 1790s, to the 1832 Reform Bill. In so doing, it deepens our understanding of the often conflicted relations between politics and feelings, and raises questions relevant to contemporary debates on affect studies and their relation to political criticism.
The respective chapters explore both the politics of emotion and the emotional register of political discussion in radical, reformist and conservative periodicals. They are arranged chronologically, covering periodicals from Pigs? Meat to Blackwood?s Edinburgh Magazine and the Spectator. Recurring themes include the contested place of emotion in radical political discourse; the role of the periodical in mediating action and performance; the changing affective frameworks of cultural politics (especially concerning gender and nation), and the shifting terrain of what constitutes appropriate emotion in public political discourse.Jock Macleod is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Griffith University.
William Christie is Professor and Director of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University.
Peter Denney is Senior Lecturer in History at Griffith University.Presents eleven essays by leading scholars of nineteenth-century British literature, which address the many and varied links between politics and emotion in Romantic periodicals
Deepens readers’ understanding of the often conflicted relations between politics and feelings
Raises questions that are relevant to contemporary debates on affect studies and their relation to political criticism
Explores both the politics of emotion and the emotional register of political discussion in radical, reformist, and conservative periodicals