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Book SynopsisIn this original and important study, leading scholar Jon Klancher discusses how early nineteenth-century writers and thinkers adopted and transformed Enlightenment ideas of knowledge. His conclusions transform the ways we think about knowledge, both in the Romantic period and in our own.
Trade Review'… one of the most ambitious and illuminating of recent studies …' Paul Keen, Huntington Library Quarterly
'… Klancher establishes the prehistory to our current understanding of the liberal arts … [His] study allows us to see how crucial the Romantic era was to the development of the modern public sphere …' Adela Pinch, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900
'Consistently interesting and closely researched …' Adrian Tait, British Society for Literature and Science (bsls.ac.uk)
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Questions of the Arts and Sciences: 1. From the age of projects to the age of institutions; 2. The administrator as cultural producer: restructuring the arts and sciences; 3. Wild bibliography: the rise and fall of book history in the nineteenth century; 4. Print and institution in the making of art controversy; 5. History and organization in the Romantic-age sciences; Part II. Questions of the Literary: 6. The Coleridge Institution; 7. Dissension in the arts and sciences; Epilogue: transatlantic crossings; Bibliography; Notes.
