Intellectual politics and cultural conflict in the romantic period : Scottish Whigs, English radicals and the making of the British public sphere

Intellectual politics and cultural conflict in the romantic period : Scottish Whigs, English radicals and the making of the British public sphere /

Building on recent studies of the Romantic public sphere, Alex Benchimol provides a new reading of the period's intellectual politics based on a historically informed examination of its spaces of cultural production and modes of intellectual practice. Benchimol traces the development of social...

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Main Author: Benchimol, Alex
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010
Series:Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Subjects:
Culture conflict > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Culture conflict > Scotland > History > 18th century.
Politics and culture > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Politics and culture > Scotland > History > 18th century.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Politics and literature > Scotland > History > 18th century.
English periodicals > History.
Scottish periodicals > History.
Public opinion > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Public opinion > Scotland > History > 18th century.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Enlightenment > Scotland.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Scotland > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Scotland > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1789-1820.
Scotland > Politics and government > 18th century.
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : new sites of cultural conflict in the Romantic period
  • Cultural theory and the Habermasian public sphere
  • Cultural leadership in 'North Britain' and the making of the Scottish Enlightenment public sphere
  • Formations of popular English cultural politics and the making of the radical plebeian public sphere
  • Scottish philosophic Whiggism and Romantic cultural critique : post-Enlightenment intellectual politics in the Edinburgh review
  • Radical Englishness in the Romantic period : intellectual leadership and popular cultural resistance in the plebeian public sphere
  • Afterword : national cultural history, cultural studies, and the Romantic public sphere.

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