Transfiguring the arts and sciences : knowledge and cultural institutions in the Romantic age /

Klancher, Jon P.

Transfiguring the arts and sciences : knowledge and cultural institutions in the Romantic age / Jon Klancher. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (x, 307 pages) - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism ; 100 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

From the age of projects to the age of institutions -- The administrator as cultural producer: restructuring the arts and sciences -- Wild bibliography: the rise and fall of book history in the nineteenth century -- Print and institution in the making of art controversy -- History and organization in the romantic-age sciences -- The Coleridge institution -- Dissenting from the "arts and sciences" -- Epilogue: transatlantic crossings.

Discusses how Romantic-age writers and new cultural institutions transformed ideas of knowledge inherited from the early-modern period.



9781461945161 9781139245937 9781107464957 9781107029101


Knowledge, Theory of--History--England--19th century.
Romanticism--England.
Science and the humanities--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Associations, institutions, etc.--History.--England
Books and reading--History--England--19th century.


Electronic Books.

PR468 / .T736 2013