Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213) and index.
Contents
Philosophy. Forming a social contract : Hobbes to anti-Jacobinism -- Writing the social contradiction : Rousseau's literary politics -- Poetry. Coleridge's exile from the social contract, 1795-1829 -- Individual sovereignty and community : Wordsworth's Prelude -- Novels. Empiricism's secret history : Fleetwood and Rousseau -- Gendering the general will : Frankenstein's breaches of contract -- Concusion : the ends of Romanticism.
Summary
<P>Zoe Beenstock examines the relationship between two major traditions which have not been considered in conjunction: British Romanticism and social contract philosophy. Her reading offers a new understanding of canonical accounts of retreat by some of B.
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