The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism

by Mark Canuel

What did Romantic writers mean when they wrote about "progress" and "perfection"? This book shows how Romantic writers inventively responded to familiar ideas about political progress which they inherited from the eighteenth century. Whereas earlier writers such as Voltaire and John Millar likened improvements in political institutions to the progress of the sciences or refinement of manners, the novelists, poets, and political theorists examined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192895303
• ISBN13: 9780192895301
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"