Coleridge and Shelley: Textual Engagement (Nineteenth Century)

<p>Sally West's timely study is the first book-length exploration of Coleridge's influence on Shelley's poetic development. Beginning with a discussion of Shelley's views on Coleridge as a man and as a poet, West argues that there is a direct correlation between Shelley's desire for political and social transformation and the way in which he appropriates the language, imagery, and forms of Coleridge, often transforming their original meaning through subtle readjustments of context and emphasis. While she situates her work in relation to recent concepts of literary influence, West is focused less on the psychology of the poets than on the poetry itself. She explores how elements such as the development of imagery and the choice of poetic form, often learnt from earlier poets, are intimately related to poetic purpose. Thus on one level, her book explores how the second-generation Romantic poets reacted to the beliefs and ideals of the first, while on another it addresses the larger question of how poets become poets, by returning the work of one writer to the literary context from which it developed. Her book is essential reading for specialists in the Romantic period and for scholars interested in theories of poetic influence.</p>

Coleridge and Shelley: Textual Engagement (The Nineteenth Century Series)

Literature & Fiction

West, Sally

History & Criticism

Routledge

Your Rights/Taxes 10cp Pk 97-8

Age Concern Books, Age Concern England

<p>This groundbreaking book is the first to study the cultural history of advertising in imperial Russia. In the first part of the book, West describes the development of advertising as an industry, discussing responses from both the business community and the state. The emergence of Russian advertising and consumer culture played a formative role in unsettling traditional tsarist society by promoting the aspirations of self-fulfillment through consumption. Encouraging a consumerist ethic at odds with an autocratic society, advertising spoke the language of both tradition and modernity, simultaneously perpetuating and undermining the values of the past. The rise of pervasive, mass-circulation advertising in tsarist society created paradoxes that reflect the tensions in late imperial Russia—a peasant society swiftly becoming a world industrial power, a modernizing economy within a patriarchal culture, and a population becoming consumers and citizens while still subjects of the tsar.West presents a cultural study of central themes that form the advertising messages themselves, including consumption as a progressive and civilizing force, the deliberate creation of \u201cconsumer\u201d as a new identity, the perpetuation and reformulation of gender roles, and the appropriation and commodification of Russian cultural motifs. In an analysis of the advertisements themselves, West incorporates numerous illustrations from the mass-circulation press and the poster collection of the Russian National Library, many of which are difficult to access and unknown to most scholars.I Shop in Moscow offers an unexplored perspective for anyone interested in the comparative study of consumer culture and advertising. WestÆs original study will appeal to scholars and students of advertising and Russian history, as well as those working in gender studies, folklore, and cultural history.</p>

I Shop in Moscow: Advertising and the Creation of Consumer Culture in Late Tsarist Russia (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)

Business & Money

Economics

Northern Illinois University Press

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