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This book attempts to examine how, why, and to what extent literature is shaped by the social and economic development of its time.
An ancient Mariner meeteth three gallants bidden to a wedding feast, and detaineth one.
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1. Nations and Art Forms
For Conrad and James see Ford Madox Ford, Return to Yesterday (London, 1931) pp. 23–4. The couplet is by Hugh MacDiarmid.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Discourse on the Manners of the Ancients’ c.1818, in R. Ingpen and W. E. Peck (eds), The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 10 vols (London and New York, 1926–30) vol. 7, p. 223.
See Michael Rosenthal, Constable: The Painter and his Landscape (Newhaven, 1983) espec. pp. 71–89 and 211–3.
Ernst Jünger, The Storm of Steel (London, 1927; translation of In Stahlgewittern) p. 316.
Raymond Williams, Culture and Society, 1780–1950 (1971, Penguin ed.) p. 248. See also Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory (Oxford, 1983) p. 213.
See Georg Freidrich Koch, Die Kunstausstellung (Berlin, 1967) and E. Spicknagel and B. Walbe (eds), Museum Lernort contra Musentempel (Giessen, 1976) and, generally, Niels von Holst, Creators, Collectors and Connoisseurs (London, 1976).
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Harvey, A.D. (1988). Nations and Art Forms. In: Literature into History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19286-1_1
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