Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s
R. S. White
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK; HBJD1; HBLL; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516.
Following the American War of Independence and the French Revolution, ideas of the 'Natural Rights of Man' (later distinguished into particular issues like rights of association, rights of women, slaves, children and animals) were publicly debated in England. Literary figures like Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Thelwall, Blake and Wordsworth reflected these struggles in their poetry and fiction. With the seminal influences of John Locke and Rousseau, these and many other writers laid for high Romantic Literature foundations that were not so much aesthetic as moral and political. This new study by R.S. White provides a reinterpretation of the Enlightenment as it is ... Read more
Following the American War of Independence and the French Revolution, ideas of the 'Natural Rights of Man' (later distinguished into particular issues like rights of association, rights of women, slaves, children and animals) were publicly debated in England. Literary figures like Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Thelwall, Blake and Wordsworth reflected these struggles in their poetry and fiction. With the seminal influences of John Locke and Rousseau, these and many other writers laid for high Romantic Literature foundations that were not so much aesthetic as moral and political. This new study by R.S. White provides a reinterpretation of the Enlightenment as it is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403994783
SKU
V9781403994783
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About R. S. White
R.S. WHITE after teaching at the University of Tyne is now Professor of English, Communications and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. He has published many books and articles on Shakespeare and on Keats and Hazlitt, and his publications include Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature (1996), Hazlitt on Shakespeare (1996) and Keats as a Reader of Shakespeare ... Read more
Reviews for Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s
'White's writing style is hugely readable, and the figures he covers are so central to the Romantic period that this book really is essential reading for undergraduates and all of us... This book is a major achievement and I can only hope that the author will extend his project into the nineteenth century, and continue his impressive exploration of natural ... Read more