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Author:

Bugg, John W., 1972- author.

Title:

Five long winters : the trials of British Romanticism / John Bugg.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--England--History--18th century.
Authors, English--18th century--Political and social views.
Romanticism--England.
Great Britain--Politics and government--1789-1820.
Englisch.
Literatur.
Romantik.
Politik.
Authors, English--Political and social views.
English literature.
Political science.
Politics and literature.
Romanticism.
England.
Great Britain.
1700 - 1820
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-237) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : the repressive 1790s -- Plots discovered : Coleridge, Godwin, and the 1795 gagging acts -- Close confinement : John Thelwall and the romantic prison -- "Hell broth" : the trials of Benjamin Flower -- "By force, or openly, what could be done" : Godwin, Smith, Wollstonecraft, and the gagging acts novel -- "I cannot tell" : Wordsworth's gagging acts -- Epilogue : Wordsworth and the death of Pitt.

ISBN:

0804785104 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804785105 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)843858338

LCCN:

2013026238

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)