LEADER 04024nam 22007812 450 001 9910782933603321 005 20160330134140.0 010 $a1-107-11478-0 010 $a1-280-15887-5 010 $a0-511-11685-3 010 $a0-511-01584-4 010 $a0-511-15626-X 010 $a0-511-32917-2 010 $a0-511-48445-3 010 $a0-511-05036-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000006974 035 $a(EBL)201987 035 $a(OCoLC)437063349 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000239396 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11220795 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000239396 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10239927 035 $a(PQKB)11495471 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511484452 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC201987 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL201987 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10005047 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL15887 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000006974 100 $a20090224d2000|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRomantic atheism $epoetry and freethought, 1780-1830 /$fMartin Priestman$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 307 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in Romanticism ;$v37 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-02685-7 311 $a0-521-62124-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 287-295) and index. 327 $g1.$tThe atheism debate, 1780-1800 --$g2.$tMasters of the universe: Lucretius, Sir William Jones, Richard Payne Knight and Erasmus Darwin --$g3.$tAnd did those feet? Blake in the 1790s --$g4.$tThe tribes of mind: the Coleridge circle in the 1790s --$g5.$tWhatsoe'er is dim and vast: Wordsworth in the 1790s --$g6.$tTemples of reason: atheist strategies, 1800-1830 --$g7.$tPretty paganism: the Shelley generation in the 1810s. 330 $aRomantic Atheism explores the links between English Romantic poetry and the first burst of outspoken atheism in Britain from the 1780s onwards. Martin Priestman examines the work of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron and Keats in their most intellectually radical periods, establishing the depth of their engagement with such discourses, and in some cases their active participation. Equal attention is given to less canonical writers: such poet-intellectuals as Erasmus Darwin, Sir William Jones, Richard Payne Knight and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and controversialists including Holbach, Volney, Paine, Priestley, Godwin, Richard Carlile and Eliza Sharples (these last two in particular representing the close links between punishably outspoken atheism and radical working-class politics). Above all, the book conveys the excitement of Romantic atheism, whose dramatic appeals to new developments in politics, science and comparative mythology lend it a protean energy belied by the common and more recent conception of 'loss of faith'. 410 0$aCambridge studies in Romanticism ;$v37. 606 $aEnglish poetry$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAtheism$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEnglish poetry$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAtheism$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aRomanticism$zGreat Britain 606 $aFreethinkers$zGreat Britain 606 $aAtheism in literature 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAtheism$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAtheism$xHistory 615 0$aRomanticism 615 0$aFreethinkers 615 0$aAtheism in literature. 676 $a821/.709382118 700 $aPriestman$b Martin$f1949-$01510832 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782933603321 996 $aRomantic atheism$93743716 997 $aUNINA