| Romantics and Renegades: The Poetics of Political Reaction 2003 Edition Contributor(s): Mahoney, C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333968492 ISBN-13: 9780333968499 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2002 Annotation: "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - General - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 821.709 |
| LCCN: 2002025149 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.74" W x 8.82" (1.00 lbs) 266 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |