The romantic tavern : literature and conviviality in the age of revolution / Ian Newman.
The romantic tavern : literature and conviviality in the age of revolution / Ian Newman.
The romantic tavern : literature and conviviality in the age of revolution / Ian Newman.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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G 2019/5295
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English
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xiii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Part I. Tavern space. The London tavern: Edmund Burke, the East India Company, and literary men -- Crown and anchor dreams: sedition in the Strand -- Part II. Tavern genres. Political ballads: Captain Morris and the convivial Whigs -- Anacreontic odes: drink poetry and the politics of pleasure -- Ba...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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England
Date Published
2019.
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"The tavern is widely acknowledged as central to the cultural and political life of Britain, yet widely misunderstood. Ian Newman provides the first sustained account of one of the primary institutions of the late eighteenth-century public sphere. The tavern was a venue not only for serious political and literary debate, but also for physical pleas...
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The romantic tavern : literature and conviviality in the age of revolution / Ian Newman.
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 125
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-269) and index.
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G 2019/5295
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74VKV5lKooOl
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1108470378 (hardback)
9781108470377 (hardback)
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647.9541
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991024272691102626
