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Sociable Places: Locating Culture in Romantic-Period Britain
Kevin Gilmartin
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Description for Sociable Places: Locating Culture in Romantic-Period Britain
hardcover. This collection explores how location shaped sociability in the Romantic period. Editor(s): Gilmartin, Kevin. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 b/w illus. BIC Classification: D; DS; HBTB; YQE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Ranging across literature, theater, history, and the visual arts, this collection of essays by leading scholars in the field explores the range of places where British Romantic-period sociability transpired. The book considers how sociability was shaped by place, by the rooms, buildings, landscapes and seascapes where people gathered to converse, to eat and drink, to work and to find entertainment. At the same time, it is clear that sociability shaped place, both in the deliberate construction and configuration of venues for people to gather, and in the way such gatherings transformed how place was experienced and understood. The essays highlight ... Read more
Ranging across literature, theater, history, and the visual arts, this collection of essays by leading scholars in the field explores the range of places where British Romantic-period sociability transpired. The book considers how sociability was shaped by place, by the rooms, buildings, landscapes and seascapes where people gathered to converse, to eat and drink, to work and to find entertainment. At the same time, it is clear that sociability shaped place, both in the deliberate construction and configuration of venues for people to gather, and in the way such gatherings transformed how place was experienced and understood. The essays highlight ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107064782
SKU
V9781107064782
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Ref
99-16
About Kevin Gilmartin
Kevin Gilmartin is Professor of English at the California Institute of Technology, and has been a regular visiting professor in English at the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York. He works on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, with a particular interest in the politics of print culture and the history of print media. His most recent book ... Read more
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