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The politics of romanticism : the social contract and literature / Zoe Beenstock.

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Main Author: Beenstock, Zoe (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism.
Subjects:
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.
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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