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Anxieties about decline were a prominent feature of British public
discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
These anxieties were borne out repeatedly in books and periodicals,
pamphlets and poems. Tracing the reciprocal development of
Romantic-era Britain's rapidly expanding literary and market
cultures through the lens of decline, Jonathan Sachs offers a fresh
way of understanding British Romanticism. The book focuses on three
aspects of literary experience - questions of value, the
fascination with ruins, and the representation of slow time - to
explore how shifting conceptions of progress and change inform a
post-enlightenment sense of cultural decline. Combining close
readings of Romantic literary texts with an examination of works
from political economy, historical writing, classical studies, and
media history the book reveals for the first time how anxieties
about decline impacted literary form and shaped Romantic debates
about poetry and the meaning of literature.
Anxieties about decline were a prominent feature of British public
discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
These anxieties were borne out repeatedly in books and periodicals,
pamphlets and poems. Tracing the reciprocal development of
Romantic-era Britain's rapidly expanding literary and market
cultures through the lens of decline, Jonathan Sachs offers a fresh
way of understanding British Romanticism. The book focuses on three
aspects of literary experience - questions of value, the
fascination with ruins, and the representation of slow time - to
explore how shifting conceptions of progress and change inform a
post-enlightenment sense of cultural decline. Combining close
readings of Romantic literary texts with an examination of works
from political economy, historical writing, classical studies, and
media history the book reveals for the first time how anxieties
about decline impacted literary form and shaped Romantic debates
about poetry and the meaning of literature.
The Koren Sacks Birkon is a beautiful, long-lasting bencher. An
English introduction and translation by the eloquent Rabbi Jonathan
Sacks and award-winning photographs of natural scenery in Israel
enhance the Hebrew text, which includes Kiddush, Birkat HaMazon,
zemirot, Havdala and more. Treat yourself to a hardcover birkon,
give them as gifts to your Shabbat hosts, or personalize them for a
special occasion.
While scholars have long noted the fascination with Roman
literature and history expressed by many preeminent British
cultural figures of the early and middle-eighteenth century, they
have only sparingly commented on the increasingly vexed role Rome
played during the subsequent Romantic period. This critical
oversight has skewed our understanding of British Romanticism as
being either a full-scale rejection of classical precedents or an
embrace of Greece at the expense of Rome. In contrast, Romantic
Antiquity argues that Rome is relevant to the Romantic period not
as the continuation of an earlier neoclassicism, but rather as a
concept that is simultaneously transformed and transformative:
transformed in the sense that new models of historical thinking
produced a changed understandings of historicity itself and
therefore a way to comprehend changes associated with modernity.
The book positions Rome as central to a variety of literary events,
including the British response to the French Revolution, the
Jacobin novel, Byron's late rejection of Romantic poetics,
Shelley's Hellenism and the London theatre, where the staging of
Rome is directly responsible for Hazlitt's understanding of poetry
as anti-democratic, or "right royal." By exposing how Roman
references helped structure Romantic poetics and theories of the
imagination, and how this aesthetic work, in turn, impacted
fundamental aspects of political modernity like mass democracy and
the spread of empire, the book recasts how we view the presence of
antiquity in a modernity with which we continue to struggle.
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