Romantic discourse and political modernity : Wordsworth, the intellectual and cultural critique
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Romantic discourse and political modernity : Wordsworth, the intellectual and cultural critique
Harvester Wheatsheaf, c1993
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Bibliography: p. 315-335
Includes index
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Description
This provocative book explores the difficulties surrounding the attempt to understand the relationship between literary and political discourse. It examines the initial formulation of these difficulties in Georgian Britain, and traces them through the cultural debates of the Victorian men of letters to the critical ideologies of the twentieth-century literary academy. Richard Bourke offers an incisive critique of the way in which the idea of Culture has been used as a means of resolving the failure to establish an adequate theory of politics in the wake of the French Revolution.
Table of Contents
Introduction. qbo-The Strategy of Denegation.-qbo Criticism, Modernity and the Organic Tradition. Custom and Dominion: Tintern Abbey. Arnold, Hazlitt: 'Roads to Wordsworth'. qbo-Restoration and Republicanism-qbo. Peace and Repose: Keats after Wordsworth. Places of Retreat: Lakes, Vales and Borders. The Interior as the Outside of Suffering. qbo-Principles of Restitution-qbo. The Intellectual in the Manifest Scheme. Dismantling the Critical Principle. Legitimating Public Pleasure: Nutting, Lucy and Propriety. qbo-Figuring a Beautiful Community-qbo. De Quincey's Pure Practice of Sublimity. Restitution by Deviancy: 'Resolution' and 'Independence'. Reading the Terrain of Politics: The Prelude. Conclusion
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