Romantics and renegades : the poetics of political reaction / Charles Mahoney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahoney, Charles, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English poetry.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Politics and literature.

Political and social views.

Political poetry, English.

Great Britain.

History.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Literature and the revolution.

France.

Political poetry, English--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Political and social views.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Political and social views.

Wordsworth, William.

Southey, Robert, 1774-1843--Political and social views.

Southey, Robert.

Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830--Knowledge and learning--Literature.

Hazlitt, William.

Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830.

Literature.

Criticism--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Criticism.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

x, 266 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

"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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-257) and index.

ISBN:

0333968492

OCLC:

49226399