Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism
Part of Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Author: Gregory Dart, University of York
- Date Published: September 2005
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521020398
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This book reopens 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 by the speeches and actions of Robespierre, we can gain a clearer and more concrete sense of the legacy he left to English writers. He shows how the writings of Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth and Hazlitt rehearse and reflect upon the Jacobin tradition in the aftermath of the Terror.
Read more- Comparative study of political rhetoric in the French Revolution and literary practice in English Romanticism; original focus on the political and literary influence of Rousseau through Robespierre
- Likely to appeal to scholars and graduates in English and French literature, and the history of political thought
- New readings of the work of Wordsworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, Godwin and Hazlitt, illuminated by the context of political thought in the French revolutionary period
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"...Dart's discussion of each of these writers is valuable..." Michael Wiley, The Wordsworth Circle
See more reviews...unique insight into Rousseau and the period." Choice
"This recent book by Gregory Dart is a well-informed and intelligently executed account of the impact of Rousseau's thought upon British romanticism... Rousseau, Robespirre, and Romanticism is a valuable, highly readable addition to romantic scholarship, a text that future analysts of the intersections of politics and literature in the age of romanticism would do well to read with care. Alertly attentive to the texts it reads, it sketches with considerable success the highly important process of Rousseau's assimilation into the political life of England in the post-revolutionary era." Stidies in Romanticism, 40 (Summer 01)
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- Date Published: September 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521020398
- length: 304 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.456kg
- contains: 5 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
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
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