Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture'

ISBN-13: 9780198185055 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 352 str.

Philip Connell

Opis

Drawing on a wide range of source material, the book situates canonical Romantic writers within a nuanced, and highly detailed ideological context, while challenging our inherited understanding of the Romantic tradition itself as the social conscience of nineteenth-century capitalism.

Recenzje

The depth of the discussion of Wordsworth is characteristic of Connell's excellent book, which does not only examine the older generation of English Romantic poets; one of the most interesting chapters analyses the ambiguous relationship between the "Hunt school" of younger radical Romantic writers, including Keats and Shelley, and the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham and his followers.

O autorze

Philip Connell is College Lecturer and Director of Studies, Selwyn College, Cambridge