1st Edition
Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era Systems, State Finance, and the Shadows of Futurity
By Robert Mitchell
Copyright 2007
280 Pages
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Routledge
276 Pages
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Routledge
280 Pages
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Routledge
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Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era explores a fascinating connection between two seemingly unrelated Romantic-era discourses, outlining the extent to which eighteenth and early nineteenth century theories of sympathy were generated by crises of state finance. Through readings of authors such as David Hume, Adam Smith, William Wordsworth, and P.B. Shelley, this... Read more
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1. Finance and the Exchange of Passions: The Origins of the Collective Imagination; Chapter 2. The Violence of System: Rousseau and Smith on Identification and Sympathy; Chapter 3. Anti-Slavery Poetry and the Speculative Subject; Chapter 4. Systems and the Parasite: Wordsworth and the Financial Crisis of 1797; Chapter 5. The Ghost of Gold: National Debt, Imagery, and the Politics of Sympathy in P. B. Shelley; Conclusion. State Finance, Systems, and Literary Criticism; Endnotes; Bibliography
Biography
Robert Mitchell is Assistant Professor of English at Duke University, USA.
"One looks forward to the catalytic effect it should have on scholarship in this area...a rich thought-provoking collection of arguments." -- Hugh Roberts, University of California, Irvine
