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Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism.
This book re-examines Rousseau's influence on the French Revolution and on English Romanticism, through his confessional writings and political theory, and their mediation in the speeches and actions of Robespierre. Gregory Dart shows how the writings of Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth and H...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 32.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Despotism of liberty: Robespierre and the illusion of politics; CHAPTER 2 The politics of confession in Rousseau and Robespierre; CHAPTER 3 Chivalry, justice and the law in William Godwin's Caleb Williams; CHAPTER 4 'The Prometheus of Sentiment': Rousseau, Wollstonecraft and aesthetic education; CHAPTER 5 Strangling the infant Hercules: Malthus and the population controversy; CHAPTER 6 'The virtue of one paramount mind': Wordsworth and the politics of the Mountain.