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Jeffrey N. Cox refines our conception of 'second generation' Romanticism by placing it within the circle of writers around Leigh Hunt that came to be known as the 'Cockney School'. Offering a theory of the group as a key site for cultural production, Cox challenges the traditional image of the Romantic poet as an isolated figure by recreating the social nature of the work of Shelley, Keats, Hunt, Hazlitt, Byron, and others, as they engaged in literary contests, wrote poems celebrating one another, and worked collaboratively on journals and other projects. Cox also recovers the work of neglected writers such as John Hamilton Reynolds, Horace Smith, and Cornelius Webb as part of the rich social and cultural context of Hunt's circle. This 1999 book not only demonstrates convincingly that a 'Cockney School' existed, but shows that it was committed to putting literature in the service of social, cultural, and political reform.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School
• Subtitle: Keats, Shelley, Hunt and their Circle
• Author: Cox, Jeffrey N. (University of Colorado, Denver)
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300
• EAN: 9780521604239
• ISBN: 0521604230
• ID: 04093165
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 446 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 150 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. May 2004

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