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Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s

By R. S. White

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2006
ISBN
1403994781, 9781403994783
LCC
PR447 .W47 2005
Open Library ID
OL22714690M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
768 kB (785935 bytes)
Edition
annotated edition
Pages
296\288
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

Following the American War of Independence and the French Revolution, ideas of the 'Natural Rights of Man' (later distinguished into particular issues like rights of association, rights of women, slaves, children and animals) were publicly debated in England. Literary figures like Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Thelwall, Blake and Wordsworth reflected these struggles in their poetry and fiction. With the seminal influences of John Locke and Rousseau, these and many other writers laid for high Romantic Literature foundations that were not so much aesthetic as moral and political. This new study by R.S. White provides a reinterpretation of the Enlightenment as it is currently understood.

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