The Politics of Romanticism : : The Social Contract and Literature / / Zoe Beenstock.
Redefines Romantic sociability through a reading of social contract theoryThe 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 vocabu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSR
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 3 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Romanticism and the Social Contract
- Part I Philosophy
- Chapter 1 Forming a Social Contract: Hobbes to Anti-Jacobinism
- Chapter 2 Writing the Social Contradiction: Rousseau's Literary Politics
- Part II Poetry
- Chapter 3 Coleridge's Exile from the Social Contract, 1795-1829
- Chapter 4 Individual Sovereignty and Community: Wordsworth's Prelude
- Part III Novels
- Chapter 5 Empiricism's Secret History: Fleetwood and Rousseau
- Chapter 6 Gendering the General Will: Frankenstein's Breaches of Contract
- Conclusion: The Ends of Romanticism
- Works Cited
- Index