Late Romanticism and the End of Politics - Byron, Mary Shelley, and the Last Men

Table des matières

1. The end of politics and the end of the world; 2. The last Whigs; 3. Byron, Brougham, and the end of slavery; 4. 'Crowns in the Dust': the ends of politics in The Last Man; 5. New worlds: Frankenstein, The Island, and the ends of the earth.

A propos de l'auteur

John Owen Havard is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University. He is the author of Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760-1830 (2019). His articles and essays on the Byron circle, party politics, political emotion, and the future of democracy have appeared in ELH, Nineteenth-Century Literature, The Byron Journal, The New Rambler and Public Books.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: John Havard
• Edition: Cambridge Academic
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.12.2026
• EAN: 9781009289191
• ISBN: 978-1-009-28919-1
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Thème: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Romanticism, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Early 18th century c 1700 to c 1750, Literary studies: poetry and poets, C 1700 To C 1800, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799