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Rousseau, Robespierre, and English Romanticism /
This book re-opens the question of Rousseau's influence on the French Revolution and on English Romanticism, by examining the relationship between his confessional writings and his political theory. Gregory Dart argues that by looking at the way in which Rousseau's writings were mediated b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
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:
- 1. Despotism of liberty: Robespierre and the illusion of politics.
- 2. The politics of confession in Rousseau and Robespierre.
- 3. Chivalry, justice and the law in William Godwin's Caleb Williams.
- 4. 'The Prometheus of Sentiment': Rousseau, Wollstonecraft and aesthetic education.
- 5. Strangling the infant Hercules: Malthus and the population controversy.
- 6. 'The virtue of one paramount mind': Wordsworth and the politics of the mountain.
- 7. 'Sour Jacobinism': WIlliam Hazlitt and the resistance to reform.