This book reopens the question of Rousseau's influence on the French Revolution and on English Romanticism, by examining the relationship between his confessional writings and his political theory. Gregory Dart argues that by looking at the way in which Rousseau's writings were mediated by the speeches and actions of Robespierre, we can gain a clearer and more concrete sense of the legacy he left to English writers. He shows how the writings of Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth and Hazlitt rehearse and reflect upon the Jacobin tradition in the aftermath of the Terror.
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Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism
This book reopens the question of Rousseau's influence on the French Revolution and on English Romanticism, by examining the relationship between his confessional writings and his political theory. Gregory Dart argues that by looking at the way in which Rousseau's writings were mediated by the speeches and actions of Robespierre, we can gain a clearer and more concrete sense of the legacy he left to English writers. He shows how the writings of Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth and Hazlitt rehearse and reflect upon the Jacobin tradition in the aftermath of the Terror.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521020398 |
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| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date: | 09/26/2005 |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Romanticism , #32 |
| Edition description: | Revised ed. |
| Pages: | 304 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.79(d) |
| Lexile: | 1730L (what's this?) |
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