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Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period

Benchimol, Alex

2010,2016

Overview

Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period maps the intellectual formation of English plebeian radicalism and Scottish philosophic Whiggism over the long eighteenth century and examines their associated strategies of critical engagement with the cultural, social and political crises of the early nineteenth century. It is a story of the making of a wider British public sphere out of the agendas and discourses of the radical and liberal publics that both shaped and responded to them. When juxtaposed, these competing intellectual formations illustrate two important expressions of cultural politics in the Romantic period, as well as the peculiar overlapping of national cultural histories that contributed to the ideological conflict over the public meaning of Britain's industrial modernity. Alex Benchimol's study provides an original contribution to recent scholarship in Romantic period studies centred around the public sphere, recovering the contemporary debates and national cultural histories that together made up a significant part of the ideological landscape of the British public sphere in the early nineteenth century.

• Publisher: Routledge,Taylor and Francis,Ashgate,Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: 18th century / 19th century / Cultural conflicts / Culture conflict / Culture conflict -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century / Culture conflict -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century / England / England -- Intellectual life -- 18th century / England -- Intellectual life -- 19th century / English periodicals / English periodicals -- History / Enlightenment / Enlightenment -- Scotland / Great Britain / Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century / Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century / Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820 / History / Intellectual History / Intellectuals / Journalism History / Modern History 1750-1945 / Politics and culture / Politics and culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century / Politics and culture -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century / Politics and literature / Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century / Politics and literature -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century / Public opinion / Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century / Public opinion -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century / Romanticism / Romanticism -- Great Britain / Scotland / Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century / Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 19th century / Scotland -- Politics and government -- 18th century / Scottish periodicals / Scottish periodicals -- History / Social structure -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century / Social structure -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century / United Kingdom
• ISBN: 9780754664468, 1138265748, 9781138265745, 0754664465