Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period: Scottish Whigs, English Radicals and the Making of the British Public Sphere

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2010 - Literary Criticism - 236 pages
Bringing together work from the fields of social theory, cultural studies, and intellectual history, Alex Benchimol foregrounds the origins of social criticism in the Scottish Enlightenment and the English radical movement, arguing for a new reading of cultural conflict during the Romantic period.
 

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Cultural Theory and the Habermasian Public Sphere
17
Cultural Leadership in North Britain and the Making of
39
Formations of Popular English Cultural Politics and the Making
65
Intellectual
149
National Cultural History Cultural Studies and
209
Selected Bibliography
223
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Alex Benchimol is lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK

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