Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism - Rilegato

Dart, Gregory

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ISBN 10: 0521641004 ISBN 13: 9780521641005

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1999

Riassunto

This book re-opens the question of Rousseau's influence on the French Revolution and on English Romanticism, by examining the relationship between his confessional writings and his political theory. Gregory Dart argues that by looking at the way in which Rousseau's writings were mediated by the speeches and actions of the French Jacobin statesman Maximilien Robespierre, we can gain a clearer and more concrete sense of the legacy he left to English writers. He shows how the writings of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth and William Hazlitt rehearse and reflect upon the Jacobin tradition in the aftermath of the French revolutionary Terror.

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Recensione:

"...Dart's discussion of each of these writers is valuable..." Michael Wiley, The Wordsworth Circle

...unique insight into Rousseau and the period." Choice

"This recent book by Gregory Dart is a well-informed and intelligently executed account of the impact of Rousseau's thought upon British romanticism... Rousseau, Robespirre, and Romanticism is a valuable, highly readable addition to romantic scholarship, a text that future analysts of the intersections of politics and literature in the age of romanticism would do well to read with care. Alertly attentive to the texts it reads, it sketches with considerable success the highly important process of Rousseau's assimilation into the political life of England in the post-revolutionary era." Stidies in Romanticism, 40 (Summer 01)

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This book re-examines Rousseau's influence on the French Revolution and on English Romanticism, through his confessional writings and political theory, and their mediation in the speeches and actions of Robespierre. Gregory Dart shows how the writings of Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth and Hazlitt engage with the Jacobin tradition after the Terror.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0521641004
• ISBN 13: 9780521641005
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304