Radical Sensibility - Literature and Ideas in the 1790s

First published in 1993. Radical Sensibility provides a detailed account of the interrelations of literature, ideas and history in the eighteenth century's Revolutionary decade.
The book traces a continuity of ideas from Shaftesbury to Godwin and Wollstonecraft, and sets it beside a conservative tradition established in the work of Hume and Adam Smith. As a guide to the transformations of 'sensibility' as a concept, Jones examines the trajectories of three writers who work spans the decade: Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams, and the early Wordsworth.
A mixture of literary textual analysis and historical and political documentation, Radical Sensibility will be important reading for students and teachers of poetry, ideas and the novel.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface;  Abbreviated Titles; Introduction;  1. Varieties of Sensibility  2. Towards Revolution  3. Sensibility in Revolution: Godwin and Wollstonecraft  4. Sensibility in Reaction  5. Helen Maria Williams: Radical Chronicler  6. Charlotte Smith as Radical Novelist  7. Wordsworth and Sensibility;  Notes;  Bibliography;  Index

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Zusammenfassung

First published in 1993. Radical Sensibility provides a detailed account of the interrelations of literature, ideas and history in the eighteenth century’s Revolutionary decade. A mixture of literary textual analysis and historical and political documentation, Radical Sensibility will be important reading for students and teachers of poetry, ideas and the novel.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Chris Jones, Chris (University of Canterbury Jones
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 17.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138642539
• ISBN: 978-1-138-64253-9
• Seiten: 248
• Serie: Routledge Library Editions: Romanticism
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800