Michael offers extraordinary insights into many other matters, including the philosophy of Shelley, Coleridge and Kant... Deserve[s] a place on the bookshelf on anyone interested in British politics, American history, the history of India, philosophy (both ancient and 18th/19th century), poetry, the development of ideas and much else.
Sun News Miami
This is a thoughtful, rigorous book written ... Read morein a pleasingly clear manner.
English Oxford Journals
Michael's book effectively shows how, during the Enlightenment, the political was not a fixed point or concept.
AmeriQuests
This is a thoughtful, rigorous book written in a pleasing clear manner.
English
Not the least of the strengths of this work is the lucidity of its author's style: the clarity with which he presents and prosecutes his thesis, summarizes or elaborates particular intellectual positions and debates as he sets out their bearings on his discussion, adds considerably to the force of his insights.
European Romantic Review
Overall, this is an ambitious and illuminating book that will undoubtedly help shape the future course of Romantic studies. And, given the current political climate in the United States and around the globe, the questions it asks are immensely relevant to discourse beyond literary criticism.
Modern Philology
Overall, there is a lot here for both literary critics and specialists in other disciplines to appreciate and admire. One can't help but suspect that the audience for this book is still very niche, but the engaging authority and clarity wtih which Michael explains complex ideas and problems while presenting his own thoughtful and original argument makes it rewarding.
Studia Neophilologica
Romanticists, intellectual historians, and philosophers will benefit immensely from Michael's work.
Studies in Romanticism
British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason will be read in any case with absorbing interest by scholars of an earlier period who may have imagined that the eighteenth century concluded on or about the year 1789.
Review of English Studies
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