Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre
Subtitle: Re-forming Literature 17891837
Contributors: Tilottama Rajan (Editor); Julia M. Wright (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780521581929
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literature and history; Great Britain; 19th Century English Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; History; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; 19th century; Sociology; English literature; History and criticism; Literary form
First sentence: The aim of this essay is to investigate Godwin's movement from the genre of political and moral philosophy, in the Enquiry into Political Justice (1973), to the genre of cultural inquiry and criticism in The Enquirer (1797).