The politics of Romanticism : the social contract and literature /

Redefines Romantic sociability through a reading of social contract theory. The Politics of Romanticism examines the relationship between two major traditions which have not been considered in conjunction: British Romanticism and social contract philosophy. She argues that an emerging political voca...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Beenstock, Zoe (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Romanticism > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Romanticism > Political aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Social contract > History > 19th century.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Romantisme > Aspect politique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Contrat social > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
Romanticism
Social contract
Englisch
Literatur
Romantik
Sozialvertrag > Motiv
Great Britain
Grande-Bretagne.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Philosophy. Forming a social contract : Hobbes to anti-Jacobinism
  • Writing the social contradiction : Rousseau's literary politics
  • Poetry. Coleridge's exile from the social contract, 1795-1829
  • Individual sovereignty and community : Wordsworth's Prelude
  • Novels. Empiricism's secret history : Fleetwood and Rousseau
  • Gendering the general will : Frankenstein's breaches of contract
  • Concusion : the ends of Romanticism.

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