Shows how a series of revolutions that erupted across Europe in the mid to late 1840s were crucial to the creation of modern ideas of constitutional democracy, citizenship, and human rights.
| Autor: | Pettitt Clare |
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| ISBN: | 9780198830412 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Oxford Academic |
| Veröffentlicht: | 17.02.2022 |
| Untertitel: | Writing, Politics, Form |
| Schlagworte: | Europe European History LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 Revolutionary groups & movements Revolutionary groups and movements Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions c 1800 to c 1900 c 1840 to c 1849 |
Clare Pettitt, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, King's College London Clare Pettitt is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at King's College London. She is author of Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel (OUP, 2004) and 'Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?': Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers and Empire (Profile/Harvard, 2007). In June 2020, she published Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 with Oxford University Press, which is the first volume of a three-volume reassessment of the impact of the media on political and literary culture from 1815 to 1918. The second part, entitled Serial Revolutions 1848: Writing, Politics, Form, shows how press reports and literary witness accounts of the 1848 European revolutions were crucial to creating international ideas of global citizenship and human rights. The third and final part will track the emergence of the digital and its effects on literary culture and imperial and racial identities.