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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495352403321

Autore

Barr Mark L.

Titolo

Romanticism and the Rule of Law : Coleridge, Blake, and the Autonomous Reader / / by Mark L. Barr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030748784

3030748782

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 pages)

Disciplina

821.509

821.7093581

Soggetti

Poetry

Literature, Modern - 18th century

Literature, Modern - 19th century

Law - History

Poetry and Poetics

Eighteenth-Century Literature

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Legal History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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