Intellectual Politics And Cultural Conflict In The Romantic Period

Download or read book Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period written by Alex Benchimol and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 criticism produced for the liberal bourgeois and radical plebeian publics in key periodicals, while highlighting their cultural origins in the Scottish Enlightenment and the English radical movements of the long eighteenth century.