Romanticism and Revolution: A Reader - Softcover

 
9781444330441: Romanticism and Revolution: A Reader

Synopsis

Romanticism and Revolution: A Readerpresents an anthology of the key texts that both defined the debate over the French Revolution during the 1790s and influenced the Romantic authors.

  • Presents readings chronologically to allow readers to experience the unfolding of the debate as it occurred in the 1790s
  • Provides an accessible and in-depth sampling of the major contributors to the Revolution debate, from Price, Burke, and Paine to Wollstonecraft and Godwin 

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About the Author

Jon Mee is Professor of Romanticism Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He has also taught at the Australian National University, the University of Delhi, the University of Chicago and the University of Oxford.

David Fallon is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at St Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK. He is currently writing a book on William Blake, Myth, and Enlightenment.

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Romanticism and Revolution: A Reader presents an anthology of the key texts that defined the tumultuous debate surrounding the French Revolution. The anthology features generous selections from major contributors to the 'Revolution debate' - from Price, Burke and Paine to Wollstonecraft and Godwin. Excerpts of these seminal texts reveal how the ideas and the language in which they were expressed defined the politics of culture for Romanticism. We see how Romantic authors - whether they rejected, embraced or remained in a more complex relationship with revolutionary politics - regularly returned to the language and ideas of these key texts in their poems, novels and essays. Romanticism and Revolution offers rich insights into one of the most far-reaching and consequential debates in literary and cultural history - one whose impact resonates to this day.

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Romanticism and Revolution: A Reader presents an anthology of the key texts that defined the tumultuous debate surrounding the French Revolution. The anthology features generous selections from major contributors to the 'Revolution debate' - from Price, Burke and Paine to Wollstonecraft and Godwin. Excerpts of these seminal texts reveal how the ideas and the language in which they were expressed defined the politics of culture for Romanticism. We see how Romantic authors - whether they rejected, embraced or remained in a more complex relationship with revolutionary politics - regularly returned to the language and ideas of these key texts in their poems, novels and essays. Romanticism and Revolution offers rich insights into one of the most far-reaching and consequential debates in literary and cultural history - one whose impact resonates to this day.

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