Introduction

David Stewart; John Gardner

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Introduction

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The Introduction to this book offers an overview of the literary culture of the 1830s. It explores existing literary-critical approaches to the decade’s culture, and considers why the decade has proved so resistant to absorption in literary genealogies. This is a consequence of the decade’s own uncertainty about and self-conscious analysis of its literary temporality. The Introduction proposes that the 1830s are uniquely placed to direct the future interests of contemporary literary studies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition
Subtitle of host publication	The 1830s
Editors	David Stewart, John Gardner
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	1-16
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9781009268486
ISBN (Print)	9781009268516
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009268486.001
Publication status	Published - 6 Jun 2024

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Name	Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition
Publisher	Cambridge University Press

Keywords

1830s
Romanticism--Great Britain
Victorianism
literary form
technology
global literature
Politics and literature

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