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Introduction
No full textThe introduction opens by evoking two interlinked 1820s discourses that both served as registers of seismic cultural change. One was an excited response to novel opportunities grounded in new technologies and burgeoning media; the other a mournful sense of imminent loss that produced a distinctive kind of nostalgia most obviously associated with the radical Toryism which the Lake Poets played a major role in creating. Both these discourses were intensely aware of themselves as remediations, transforming older methodologies and ideals to come to terms with meaningful pasts and possible futures from the standpoint of a deeply uncertain present. We ground our discussion by examining two touchstone events that bracket the decade: the Peterloo Massacre in 1819 and the death of the liberal Tory MP William Huskisson in the world’s first fatal railway accident in 1830. These events are used to frame a postwar moment in which an inexorable move towards a new economic situation based on manufacturing was raising urgent questions about forms of representation, acceptable standards, cultural connections, the nature of improvement and the implications of speed. As London mushroomed, railways began to spread between the new industrial areas, and the stock market rose vertiginously and crashed precipitously, cultural agents produced a bewildering array of new forms and genres that sought to capture and contain the onrush. The reconfigured magic lantern, the cheap magazine, the lithophane, the lecture, the lavish annual and the stalwart hymnal all competed to fix meanings in a time of extraordinary proliferation. While the decade has often been passed over as one full of unformed narratives, uncertain roads and empty spectacles, this reflects the exhilarating and painful feelings of possibility and contingency experienced by those struggling to make sense of a bewildering new order. The introduction also reflects on the collection’s own status as a multiform remediation that surfaces hitherto-neglected characteristics of the decade while benefitting from the retrospective perspective often anxiously evoked in 1820s writing, but which proved impossible to sustain in the heat of the moment
Introduction: literature and institutions
No full textThe introduction begins by addressing the uses of studying cultural institutions. It provides a working definition of ‘institution’ and a historical overview of the emergence of the infrastructure of institutions in the period 1700 to 1900. The logic of choosing the period is addressed in relation to the uneven translation from cultural institutions based on the court and church to voluntary institutions that had an arms-length relationship to the state. It also discusses the historical irony that just as a ‘romantic’ definition of the literary individualism emerged that might seem to pit literature against Institutions, there was a proliferation of institutions of literature. The purview of the collection in relation to British national and imperial culture and identities is explained and the opportunities for further work in related areas discussed in the framework of the collection’s own historical moment at a time when the university-based discipline of Literature seems to be undergoing a fundamental change in its structure and purposes
Print, Publicity and Radicalism in the 1790s
No full textJon Mee explores the popular democratic movement that emerged in the London of the 1790s in response to the French Revolution. Central to the movement’s achievement was the creation of an idea of ‘the people’ brought into being through print and publicity. Radical clubs rose and fell in the face of the hostile attentions of government. They were sustained by a faith in the press as a form of ‘print magic,’ but confidence in the liberating potential of the printing press was interwoven with hard-headed deliberations over how best to animate and represent the people. Ideas of disinterested rational debate were thrown into the mix with coruscating satire, rousing songs, and republican toasts. Print personality became a vital interface between readers and print exploited by the cast of radicals returned to history in vivid detail by Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism
Jon Mee : Dangerous Enthusiasm. William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s., 1992
No full textBaridon Michel. Jon Mee : Dangerous Enthusiasm. William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s., 1992. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°25, 1993. L'Europe des Lumières. p. 601
Keynote: Jon Gertner
No full textThe symposium will start on the evening of April 16 with a keynote address by Jon Gertner. Jon is a journalist, historian, and feature writer for The New York Times Magazine
as well as the author of the NYTimes bestseller, The Idea Factory. His address will focus on the issue of intellectual property and the ethical questions around the huge amount of human-generated content that large language models use as they are developed
Jon Mirande eta ironia
No full textLa ironía es un elemento que ha ido siempre unido a la poesía, y especialmente a la poesía moderna.Tras un pequeño repaso a esta en diferentes épocas, se pasa a describir las tres diferentes ironías de Jon Mirande: la intelectual, la social y la filosófica. Todo ello acompañado de ejemplosIrony is an element that has always been united to poetry, and especially to modern poetry. After a small revision of irony in different eras, the author then describes the three different ironies of Jon Mirande: intellectual, social and philosophical irony. All this illustrated with example
Romanticism and revolution : a reader/ Edit.: Jon Mee; (David Fallon)
No full textxii, 201 hal.; 25 cm
Romanticism and revolution : a reader/ Edit.: Jon Mee; (David Fallon)
No full textxii, 201 hal.; 25 cm
Jon Mee : Romanticism, Enthusiasm and Regulation. Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period., 2003
No full textL'Aminot Tanguy. Jon Mee : Romanticism, Enthusiasm and Regulation. Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period., 2003. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°36, 2004. Femmes des Lumières. p. 588
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