Rousseau, Robespierre, and English Romanticism / Gregory Dart.

ISBN:

9780511007606

9780511036248

9780511117244

9780521641005

9780511484162

Title:

Rousseau, Robespierre, and English Romanticism / Gregory Dart.

Author:

Dart, Gregory.

Personal Author:

Dart, Gregory.

Publication Information:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 288 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 32

Contents:

1. Despotism of liberty: Robespierre and the illusion of politics. -- 2. The politics of confession in Rousseau and Robespierre. -- 3. Chivalry, justice and the law in William Godwin's Caleb Williams. -- 4. 'The Prometheus of Sentiment': Rousseau, Wollstonecraft and aesthetic education. -- 5. Strangling the infant Hercules: Malthus and the population controversy. -- 6. 'The virtue of one paramount mind': Wordsworth and the politics of the mountain. -- 7. 'Sour Jacobinism': WIlliam Hazlitt and the resistance to reform.

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Personal Subject:

Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794-Influence.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778-Influence.

Robespierre, Maximilien de, 1758-1794-Influence.

Subject Term:

English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.

Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.

English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.

English literature -- French influences.

Romanticism -- Great Britain.

Geographic Term:

France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

1999

Publication Information:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Summary

This book reopens 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 Robespierre, we can gain a clearer and more concrete sense of the legacy he left to English writers. He shows how the writings of Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth and Hazlitt rehearse and reflect upon the Jacobin tradition in the aftermath of the Terror.