Intellectual politics and cultural conflict in the romantic period : Scottish Whigs, English radicals and the making of the British public sphere / Alex Benchimol.

Building on recent studies of the Romantic public sphere, Alex Benchimol provides a new reading of the period's intellectual politics based on a historically informed examination of its spaces of cultural production and modes of intellectual practice. Benchimol traces the development of social...

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Main Author: Benchimol, Alex
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.
Series:Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : new sites of cultural conflict in the Romantic period
  • Cultural theory and the Habermasian public sphere
  • Cultural leadership in 'North Britain' and the making of the Scottish Enlightenment public sphere
  • Formations of popular English cultural politics and the making of the radical plebeian public sphere
  • Scottish philosophic Whiggism and Romantic cultural critique : post-Enlightenment intellectual politics in the Edinburgh review
  • Radical Englishness in the Romantic period : intellectual leadership and popular cultural resistance in the plebeian public sphere
  • Afterword : national cultural history, cultural studies, and the Romantic public sphere.