1st Edition

Romanticism and Ideology Studies in English Writing 1765-1830

By David Aers, Jonathan Cook, David Punter Copyright 1981
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1981.The primary purpose of this book is to serve as an introduction to writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In addition to major Romantic poets – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelly – the authors discuss writers such as Austen, Hazlitt and Burke, who are usually studied in a different context, and genres such as fiction and political writing,... Read more

Introduction;  1. Blake: ‘Active Evil’ and ‘Passive Good’  2. Blake: Sex, Society and Ideology  3. Romantic Literature and Childhood  4. Wordsworth’s Model of Man in ‘The Prelude’  5. Coleridge: Individual, Community and Social Agency  6. Social Relations of Gothic Fiction  7. Community and Morality: Towards Reading Jane Austen  8. Hazlitt: Criticism and Ideology  9. Shelley: Poetry and Politics;  Notes;  Index of Authors and Titles

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