%0 Journal Article
%T Paul Keen. The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s ¨C Print Culture and the Public Sphere
%A Susanne SCHMID
%J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone
%D 2007
%I 
%X Keen¡¯s impressive study commences with the seemingly straightforward question of what actually constituted ¡°literature¡± in the 1790s. The answer, however, is anything but simple, as the 299 pages, packed with information, prove to their readers: By no means did ¡°literature¡± only relate to poetic works in a narrow sense ¨C on the contrary, ¡°literature¡± comprised texts in any subjects and on any topic, ranging from theology to natural philosophy. In the 1790s, which were revolutionary both throu...
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