British Romanticism and the critique of political reason

British Romanticism and the critique of political reason / Timothy Michael.

Combining literary and intellectual history, it provides an account of British Romanticism in which high rhetoric, political prose, poetry, and poetics converge in a discourse of enlightenment and emancipation.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michael, Timothy, 1980- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
1700-1899
Romanticism > Great Britain.
English literature > Philosophy.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Philosophy
Literature and society
Politics and literature
Romanticism
Great Britain
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
  • The Discipline of Political Knowledge: Invention, Development, Crisis
  • Contexts: Intellectual History, Political Theory, and Romantic Studies
  • Cases of Romanticism
  • Conceptual Orientations
  • 1. Kant and the Revolutionary Settlement of Early Romanticism
  • Revolutions, Copernican and French
  • Prophetic History and Moral Terrorism: The Conflict of the Faculties
  • Independence from Experience: The a Priori Aporia
  • The Rhetoric of Hurly-Burly Innovation
  • 2. Burke and the Critique of Political Metaphysics
  • Hypotaxis: Burke's Speech on Fox's East India Bill
  • Paradox: Reflections on the Revolution in France
  • 3. Wollstonecraft and the Vindication of Political Reason: The Rights of Men
  • Ratiocinatio: Building Affection on Rational Grounds
  • Stale Tropes and Cold Rodomontade
  • Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
  • 4. The Government of the Tongue: Godwin's Linguistic Turns and the Artillery of Reason
  • The Power of Mere Proposition: Political Justice
  • Constructing a Form of Words: Political Justice
  • Resisting "Incroachment": Cursory Strictures
  • The Literature of Justice and Justification
  • 5. Coleridge and the Principles of Political Knowledge
  • Hume and the Highest Problem of Philosophy
  • Structures of Mind and Government: The Friend
  • The Symptom of Empiricism
  • 6. The State of Knowledge: Wordsworth's Political Prose
  • Rational Resistance: A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff
  • The Limits of Experimental Philosophy: The Convention of Cintra
  • Trying French Principles: Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmorland
  • Poetry and Poetics of the Excursive and Unbound Mind
  • 7. The Dwellers of the Dwelling: Wordsworth and the Poetry of Recompense
  • Epistemic Hedonism: The 1802 Preface.
  • Tranquil and Troubled Pleasure: Home at Grasmere
  • Building Social Freedom: The Excursion
  • The Inner Citadel of the Spirit
  • 8. P. B. Shelley and the Forms of Thought
  • The Case for Skeptical Idealism
  • Historical Epistemology: A Philosophical View of Reform
  • The Atmosphere of Human Thought: Prometheus Unbound
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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