1st Edition
Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall
Introduction
Part I. Romantic Poets’ Responses to Miltonic Ideas of the Fall
Chapter 1. First-Generation Romantics: Revolutionary Responses to Miltonic Ideas of the Fall
1.1. William Blake: Poetry as Rebellion — Reconciling Blake and Milton
1.2. Coleridge: Retrospective Conservatism and the Intervening Voice
1.3. Wordsworth: ‘Two Consciousnesses’ and The Consummation of the Poet’s Mind
Chapter 2. Byron and Keats: Intergenerational Conflict and Rising from the Fall
2.1. Byron: ‘being/ Yourselves in your resistance’: The Value of Ideological Integrity in Cain
2.2. Keats: The Necessary Transition to a New Poetic Order
Part II. Writing from the Literary ‘Lacuna’: Divided Voices and Divided Sympathies
Chapter 3. Frankenstein and Mary Shelley’s Radical Scepticism
Chapter 4. ‘Neither Whig, Tory, Radical, nor Destructionist’: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and the ‘Polydoxy’ of James Hogg
Chapter 5. Wuthering Heights: ‘As Different as a Moonbeam from Lightning’ — Reconciling Romanticism and Victorianism
Conclusion
Biography
Callum Fraser currently works as a commissioning editor at CRC Press/ Taylor & Francis. He received a PhD from Newcastle University in 2018 for research on the influence of Milton on the Romantics, as well as a related creative project. He maintains his interest in this literary period and is currently working on a Gothic novel set in rural Cumberland in 1824.
