British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
2013th Edition, Kindle Edition
Palgrave Macmillan · Ebook · February 6, 2013
British salons, with guests such as Byron, Moore, and Thackeray, were veritable hothouses of political and cultural agitation.
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- Who it’s for
- Schmid traces British salons from the 1780s to the 1840s through varied written sources.
- Genres
- Georgian Britain (1714-1837), 19th-Century History, British & Irish Literary Criticism
- Published
- Palgrave Macmillan, February 6, 2013
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British salons, with guests such as Byron, Moore, and Thackeray, were veritable hothouses of political and cultural agitation. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - Schmid paints a vivid picture of the British salon between the 1780s and the 1840s.
British Salon Sources
Schmid traces British salons from the 1780s to the 1840s through varied written sources.
Come here for
- Political and cultural agitation in British salons
- Diaries, letters, novels, satires, and travel writing
Expect
- Guests including Byron, Moore, and Thackeray
- Keepsakes and imaginary conversations alongside diaries and letters
Where it sits
| Georgian Britain (1714-1837) | 53% |
|---|---|
| 19th-Century History | 27% |
| British & Irish Literary Criticism | 22% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Creative Writing
- Authors
- S. Schmid, Susanne Schmid
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- February 6, 2013
- Format
- Ebook
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- Creative Writing