Conversable worlds : literature, contention, and community 1762 to 1830 / Jon Mee.

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Mee, Jon

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 315 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191618727
0191618721
9780191731433
0191731439
1299606237
9781299606234
0199683743
9780199683741

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Conversable worlds.DDC classification:

820.9355 23

LOC classification:

PR448.C65 M44 2011

Other classification:

HL 1071

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Contents:

Introduction : opening gambit -- Some paradigms of conversability in the eighteenth century -- Proliferating worlds, 1762-1790 -- Critical conversation in the 1790s : Godwin, Hays, and Wollstonecraft -- 'Language really used by men' : Cowper, Coleridge, and Wordsworth -- Jane Austen and the hazard of conversation -- Hazlitt, Hunt, and cockney conversability -- Epilogue.

Summary: Examines the emergence of the conversation of culture that arose with a new commercial society in Britain and its influence on the idea and practice of English literature.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-304) and index.

Examines the emergence of the conversation of culture that arose with a new commercial society in Britain and its influence on the idea and practice of English literature.