Description: Illuminates Britain's literary field during the 1820s as a decade of improvisation, speculation and rapid cultural change.
Brief description: Angela Esterhammer, FRSC, is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, and General Editor of the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt. Her previous books include The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism (2001), Romanticism and Improvisation, 1750-1850 (2008), and the edited volume Romantic Poetry: Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (2002).
Review Quotes: 'In pondering the performativity of language and literature, no surer and more capable guide can be found than Angela Esterhammer.' Frederick Burwick, The BARS Review