04024nam 22007812 450 991045035620332120160330134140.01-107-11478-01-280-15887-50-511-11685-30-511-01584-40-511-15626-X0-511-32917-20-511-48445-30-511-05036-4(CKB)1000000000006974(EBL)201987(OCoLC)437063349(SSID)ssj0000239396(PQKBManifestationID)11220795(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000239396(PQKBWorkID)10239927(PQKB)11495471(UkCbUP)CR9780511484452(MiAaPQ)EBC201987(Au-PeEL)EBL201987(CaPaEBR)ebr10005047(CaONFJC)MIL15887(EXLCZ)99100000000000697420090224d2000|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRomantic atheism poetry and freethought, 1780-1830 /Martin Priestman[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2000.1 online resource (xiii, 307 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;37Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-02685-7 0-521-62124-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-295) and index.1.The atheism debate, 1780-1800 --2.Masters of the universe: Lucretius, Sir William Jones, Richard Payne Knight and Erasmus Darwin --3.And did those feet? Blake in the 1790s --4.The tribes of mind: the Coleridge circle in the 1790s --5.Whatsoe'er is dim and vast: Wordsworth in the 1790s --6.Temples of reason: atheist strategies, 1800-1830 --7.Pretty paganism: the Shelley generation in the 1810s.Romantic Atheism explores the links between English Romantic poetry and the first burst of outspoken atheism in Britain from the 1780s onwards. Martin Priestman examines the work of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron and Keats in their most intellectually radical periods, establishing the depth of their engagement with such discourses, and in some cases their active participation. Equal attention is given to less canonical writers: such poet-intellectuals as Erasmus Darwin, Sir William Jones, Richard Payne Knight and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and controversialists including Holbach, Volney, Paine, Priestley, Godwin, Richard Carlile and Eliza Sharples (these last two in particular representing the close links between punishably outspoken atheism and radical working-class politics). Above all, the book conveys the excitement of Romantic atheism, whose dramatic appeals to new developments in politics, science and comparative mythology lend it a protean energy belied by the common and more recent conception of 'loss of faith'.Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;37.English poetry19th centuryHistory and criticismAtheismGreat BritainHistory19th centuryEnglish poetry18th centuryHistory and criticismAtheismGreat BritainHistory18th centuryRomanticismGreat BritainFreethinkersGreat BritainAtheism in literatureEnglish poetryHistory and criticism.AtheismHistoryEnglish poetryHistory and criticism.AtheismHistoryRomanticismFreethinkersAtheism in literature.821/.709382118Priestman Martin1949-1047554UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910450356203321Romantic atheism2475176UNINA