Romantics and Renegades: The Poetics of Political Reaction

ISBN-13: 9780333968499 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 266 str.

Charles Mahoney

Opis

Romantics and Renegades examines the abiding crux of romantic criticism: the political apostasies of the Lake poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey) as they renounced the revolutionary Jacobinism of their youth in the 1790s in order to claim the high ground of Regency Toryism in the 1810s. Central to this scandal is the figure of William Hazlitt, the literary critic who policed their betrayals in his vigilant exposure of their political and poetical inconsistencies. Mahoney's analysis provides new insight into this abiding critical riddle through close historical and figural readings of the rhetoric of romantic apostasy.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: On the Discrimination of Apostasies The Laureate Hearse Where Lyric Lies: The Making of Romantic Apostasy The Mausoleum of Independence Lawless Sway: Pendulous Politics Facing the Past: Spectral Apostasies Upstaging the Fall: The Spectacle of Romantic Apostasy Criticism on the Verge Appendix: Overview of The Complete Works of William Hazlitt Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

CHARLES MAHONEY is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.