Romanticism and the Rule of Law: Coleridge, Blake, and the Autonomous Reader

by Mark L. Barr

Book Overview

This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "The Rule of Law" and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution. The bulk of this study focuses on Romantic literary replies to these events (primarily in the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake), but its latter stages also explore how Romantic poetry's construction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030748804
• ISBN13: 9783030748807
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"