Romantic Devotion by Mary Fairclough

Romantic Devotion by Mary Fairclough

Devotional forms and practices had a shaping influence on female authorship, economies of print, and cultures of reading during the Romantic period. Mary Fairclough analyses the work of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Hays to demonstrate how these aspects of Romantic literary culture can be traced back to devotional customs. These authors, she shows, sustain the religious force of such customs, but at the same time they make them new, by appropriating devotional models to produce affective, inclusive forms of authorship, print, and reading. In doing so they harness the most up to date technologies and trends in book production and publishing, enabling innovations in literary form and genre and producing new, hybrid modes of writing. Simultaneously, they centre acts of voicing to emphasise that literary texts are catalysts for embodied practices of vocal performance and the creation of community which centres women and girls.

Mary Fairclough is Professor of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at the University of York. Her work investigates the intersection of literature, science, politics and religion. She is the author of The Romantic Crowd: Sympathy, Controversy, and Print Culture (2013) and Literature, Electricity and Politics: 'Electrick Communication Every Where' (2017).

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ISBN 13	9781009784818
Title	Romantic Devotion
Author	Mary Fairclough
Series	Cambridge Studies In Romanticism
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2026-12-31
Number of pages	220
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