276 Pages
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Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1986. It is often suggested that the great first generation of Romantics, after the first flush of their revolutionary enthusiasm, ‘sold out’ to the forces of conservatism and reaction. This book starts from the thesis that the ideas of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey did always contain powerful radical and reformist implications that set the tone of liberal and left-wing... Read more
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Political Message of Wordsworth’s Prelude 2. Robert Southey and the Communal Values of Politics 3. The History Shelley Never Wrote 4. Thomas Carlyle’s ‘Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ 5. Three Shades of Tory Radicalism 6. The Working Man as Hero: Hardie, Blatchford and the ILP 7. The Romantic Tradition in British Imperialist Ideology; Index
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Jonathan Mendilow
