Title Print and performance in the 1820s : improvisation, speculation, identity / Angela Esterhammer

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 264 pages) : illustrations Series Cambridge studies in romanticism ; 127 Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 127. Summary "In 1824, the anonymous narrator of a book entitled Revelations of the Dead-Alive claims to have travelled two hundred years into the future to experience life in London during the year 2023. He relates what he learned from conversations with twenty-first-century writers, artists, and scientists, and from his research in the twenty-first-century British Library, about how the history of his own century was recorded. Satirizing the literature, theatre, art, science, politics, and fashions of 1820s Britain from the imagined vantage point of 2023, Revelations speculates about a possible future. This bizarre text by Irish novelist and journalist John Banim at once describes and performs many of the distinctive features of the milieu from which it arose. Banim surveys the metropolitan landscape of 1820s London, with its intertwined industries of theatre and publishing. He identifies technological innovation and financial speculation as preeminent trends of his time, and he finds the transatlantic speculations of the 1820s mirrored in the imagined world of 2023 by "cargoes of speculators" who emigrate by "balloon-ship" to establish colonies on the moon"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 08, 2020) Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Authors and publishers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Literary form -- History -- 19th century Authors and publishers Authors and readers English literature Intellectual life Literary form Literature and society Literature publishing SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056856 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019030921 ISBN 9781108656832 1108656838 1108640222 9781108640220

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