Politics of Romanticism
Subtitle: The Social Contract and Literature
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781474401036
Subjects: English literature, history and criticism
Description: Zoe Beenstock examines the relationship between two major traditions which have not been considered in conjunction: British Romanticism and social contract philosophy. Her reading offers a new understanding of canonical accounts of retreat by some of British Romanticism's most dominant voices.