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British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason
Timothy Michael
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Description for British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason
Hardback. Combining literary and intellectual history, it provides an account of British Romanticism in which high rhetoric, political prose, poetry, and poetics converge in a discourse of enlightenment and emancipation. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. .
What role should reason play in the creation of a free and just society? Can we claim to know anything in a field as complex as politics? And how can the cause of political rationalism be advanced when it is seen as having blood on its hands? These are the questions that occupied a group of British poets, philosophers, and polemicists in the years following the French Revolution. Timothy Michael argues that much literature of the period is a trial, or a critique, of reason in its political capacities and a test of the kinds of knowledge available to it. For Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Burke, Wollstonecraft, and Godwin, the historical sequence of revolution, counter-revolution, and terror in France-and radicalism and repression in Britain-occasioned a dramatic reassessment of how best to advance the project of enlightenment. The political thought of these figures must be understood, Michael contends, in the context of their philosophical thought. Major poems of the period, including The Prelude, The Excursion, and Prometheus Unbound, are in this reading an adjudication of competing political and epistemological claims. This book bridges for the first time two traditional pillars of Romantic studies: the period's politics and its theories of the mind and knowledge. Combining literary and intellectual history, it provides an account of British Romanticism in which high rhetoric, political prose, poetry, and poetics converge in a discourse of enlightenment and emancipation.
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
534g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421418032
SKU
V9781421418032
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About Timothy Michael
Timothy Michael is a Fellow of Lincoln College and an associate professor of English at the University of Oxford.
Reviews for British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason
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 in 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
Sun News Miami
This is a thoughtful, rigorous book written in 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