{"product_id":"9780199245437-secondhand-an-oxford-companion-to-the-romantic-age-british-culture-1776-1832","title":"An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832","description":"For the first time in this innovative reference book the Romantic Age is surveyed across all aspects of British culture, rather than in literary or artistic terms alone. The Companion's two-part structure presents forty-two essays on major topics, by leading international experts, cross-referenced to an extensive alphabetical section covering all the principal figures, events, and movements in the broad culture of the period. Aimed at students and general readers as\nwell as scholars, the essays constitute an accessible, pluralistic, and modern social history of the epoch; the alphabetical entries can either be used alongside them, for deeper information on\nspecific subjects, or as a free-standing reference tool. The volume as a whole embraces both high and low culture, and explores its subject across the whole breadth of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.\nThe book's multi-disciplinary approach treats Romanticism both in aesthetic terms-its meaning for painting, music, design, architecture, and above all literature-and as a historical epoch of 'revolutionary' transformations which ushered in modern democratic and\nindustrialized society. In this period Wedgwood turned taste into a commercial enterprise, Pierce Egan took Britain by storm with his sensational accounts of low-life in the capital, and Mary Shelley created,\nin Frankenstein, one of the enduring myths of scientific advance. The Companion revitalizes canonical Romantic figures in the context of the historical events, political and linguistic debates, commercial pressures, and plebeian subcultures of their day, as well as bringing back into historical focus individuals and events whose impact has often been muffled or forgotten.\nWith over 100 integrated illustrations, bibliographies accompanying all the major essays, and an index\nto Part 1, this is the most comprehensive volume of its kind, offering a unique breadth of information to scholars and students of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, literature, and\nhistory.\nEDITORIAL BOARD:\nJohn Brewer (University of California)\nMarilyn Butler (Exeter College, University of Oxford)\nJames Chandler (University of Chicago)\nJerome J. McGann ( University of Virginia, Charlottesville)\nMark Philp (Oriel College, Oxford)\nRobert Webb (University of Maryland)","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49031078576347,"sku":"9780199245437-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f5a8c031-b695-4917-8013-e06e9231b062.jpg?v=1785208291","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780199245437-secondhand-an-oxford-companion-to-the-romantic-age-british-culture-1776-1832","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}