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This book offers an original study of the debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature. Paul Keen shows how these debates were situated at the intersection of the French Revolution and a more gradual revolution in information and literacy reflecting the aspirations of the professional classes in eighteenth-century England. He shows these movements converging in hostility to a new class of readers, whom critics saw as dangerously subject to the effects of seditious writings or the vagaries of literary fashion. The first part of the book concentrates on the dominant arguments about the role of literature and the status of the author; the second shifts its focus to the debates about working-class activists, radical women authors, and the Orientalists, and examines the growth of a Romantic ideology within this context of political and cultural turmoil.

Authorship --- Books and reading --- English literature --- Literature and society --- Literature --- Printing --- Romanticism --- Public opinion --- History --- History and criticism. --- 820 "17/18" --- 930.85.48 --- 930.85:02 --- 028 --- 82:396 --- -Books and reading --- -English literature --- -Literature --- -Printing --- -Romanticism --- -Literature and society --- -82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme --- 028 Lezen. Lectuur --- Lezen. Lectuur --- 930.85.48 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Verlichting; Aufklärung --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Verlichting; Aufklärung --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- 930.85:02 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis-:-Bibliotheekwezen --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis-:-Bibliotheekwezen --- 820 "17/18" Engelse literatuur--18e en 19e eeuw. Periode 1700-1899.--(eveneens voor boeken over recht periode 1789-1799) --- Engelse literatuur--18e en 19e eeuw. Periode 1700-1899.--(eveneens voor boeken over recht periode 1789-1799) --- -History --- -History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Great Britain --- -820 "17/18" --- -Authorship --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- History and criticism --- 18th century --- 1789-1820 --- Literature - Public opinion - Great Britain - History - 18th century. --- Authorship - Public opinion - Great Britain - History - 18th century. --- Printing - Great Britain - History - 18th century. --- Arts and Humanities