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Zoe Beenstock - The Politics of Romanticism: The Social Contract and Literature - 9781474401036 - V9781474401036
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The Politics of Romanticism: The Social Contract and Literature

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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 vocabulary was translated into a literary vocabulary in social contract theory, which shaped the literature of Romantic Britain, as well as German Idealism, the philosophical tradition through which Romanticism is more usually understood. Beenstock locates the Romantic movement’s coherence in contract theory’s definitive dilemma: the critical disruption of the individual and the social collective. By looking at the intersection of ... Read more

  • Develops new understanding of Romanticism as political movement
  • Offers fresh readings of canonical works by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Godwin, Mary Shelley and Carlyle by tracing their implicit dialogue with the political philosophy of Rousseau and other Enlightenment political theorists
  • Shows that the philosophical routes of Romanticism and its ties to German Idealism originate in empiricism
  • Carries important consequences for the contemporary understanding of the self, an understanding that is partly rooted in notions that originated with the Romantics
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Product Details

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474401036
SKU
V9781474401036
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