Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences Hardback: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age: 100 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 100) - Hardcover

Klancher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107029104 ISBN 13: 9781107029101

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

In this original and important study, leading scholar Jon Klancher discusses how early nineteenth-century writers and thinkers adopted and transformed Enlightenment ideas of knowledge. His conclusions transform the ways we think about knowledge, both in the Romantic period and in our own.

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Críticas:

'... one of the most ambitious and illuminating of recent studies ...' Paul Keen, Huntington Library Quarterly

'... Klancher establishes the prehistory to our current understanding of the liberal arts ... [His] study allows us to see how crucial the Romantic era was to the development of the modern public sphere ...' Adela Pinch, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900

'Consistently interesting and closely researched ...' Adrian Tait, British Society for Literature and Science (bsls.ac.uk)

Biografía del autor:

Jon Klancher is Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania. His areas of research include Romantic and Victorian studies, the history of books and reading, and the sociology of cultural fields. He is editor of A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age (2009).

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107029104
• ISBN 13: 9781107029101
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 322