Romanticism and the Rule of Law

Coleridge, Blake, and the Autonomous Reader
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-74877-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 448 g

This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "The Rule of Law" and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution. The bulk of this study focuses on Romantic literary replies to these events (primarily in the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake), but its latter stages also explore how Romantic poetry's construction of the autonomous reading subject continues to influence legal and literary critical reactions to two modern crises in the rule of law: European Fascism and the continuing instability of legal interpretive strategy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barr, Mark L.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 2 A Legal Genealogy of the Romantic Imagination- 3 Coleridge’s Poetic Dispensation.- 4 Imagination and the Lyric Constitution.- 5 Blake’s Perpetual Revolution.- 6 The Gospel of Minute Particulars.- 7 Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Mark L. Barr is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.