It takes the average reader 4 hours and 36 minutes to read The Familiar Essay, Romantic Affect and Metropolitan Culture by Simon Peter Hull
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Through close readings of diverse examples by Lamb, De Quincey, Hazlitt, Irving and Poe, this book argues that the familiar essay in the Romantic period embodies a quintessentially metropolitan mode of affect. The generic traits of the essay—astuteness of observation, an ambulatory or paratactic movement of thought, and an urbane tone of wry or ironic humour—all predispose it to the expression of a detached, non-pathological state of mind. This is a mind conditioned by the quickened pace, assorted humanity, and plenitude of spectacle which characterise urban and urbanised life. In making a...
The Familiar Essay, Romantic Affect and Metropolitan Culture by Simon Peter Hull is 273 pages long, and a total of 69,069 words.
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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 17 minutes to read The Familiar Essay, Romantic Affect and Metropolitan Culture aloud.
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