The Romantic Reformation
Subtitle: Religious Politics in English Literature, 17891824 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521604543
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English poetry--19th century--History and cri; English poetry--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Poetry-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: Shelley's perception of an intimate, necessary connection between politics and religion as forces for social change and his assumption that imaginative literature participated in the enterprise of political and religious reformation were shared by other writers of the time, even by those who did not sympathize with the radical politics that colored Shelley's optimism.