1st Edition
Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene A Reception History of his Major Works, 1805-1828
By Michael Eberle-Sinatra
Copyright 2005
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Leigh Hunt’s contributions to English literature, although downplayed for several decades, are now acknowledged by scholars as key to our understanding of the Romantic period. He was not only a facilitator - in his support for the poetry of Shelley and Keats for example - but was also a major contributor in his own right to the literary and political world of the nineteenth century.... Read more
Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Theatrical Criticism and The News 2. The Feast of the Poets 3. Dante and the Politics of Language 4. The Liberal. Epilogue. Bibliography. Index
Biography
Michael Eberle-Sinatra is Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century British Literature at the University of Montreal.
'Michael Eberle-Sinatra's highly accessible study is a worthy contribution to the recent rise of interest in the work on Leigh Hunt.' - Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840






