E. J. Clery

Eighteen Hundred and Eleven

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Produktbeschreibung

A wide-ranging analysis of the economic crisis of 1811 through the lens of a controversial poem.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9781316638859
• ISBN-10: 1316638855
• Artikelnr.: 54641654

Autorenporträt

E. J. Clery is professor of English Literature at the University of Southampton. Her publications include The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800 (Cambridge, 1995), Women's Gothic from Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley (2000), The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England (2004) and Jane Austen: The Banker's Daughter (2017). In 2013 she was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Fellowship for the project 'Romantic-Era Women Writers and Economic Debate'. She lectures and broadcasts on eighteenth-century and Romantic literature, book history and the cultural history of economics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the puzzle and the myth
Part I. The Making of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: 1. Economic warfare
2. Writing for the enemy
3. Commercial dissent
4. Stoic patriotism
5. The prophet motive
6. Ruin: doing the policy in different voices
7. Lady credit
Part II. What Happened Next: 8. Publication to vindication: a chronology
9. The summer of 1812 and after
Conclusion.