Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Despotism of liberty: Robespierre and the illusion of politics
- Chapter 2 The politics of confession in Rousseau and Robespierre
- Chapter 3 Chivalry, justice and the law in William Godwin's Caleb Williams
- Chapter 4 ‘The Prometheus of Sentiment’: Rousseau, Wollstonecraft and aesthetic education
- Chapter 5 Strangling the infant Hercules: Malthus and the population controversy
- Chapter 6 ‘The virtue of one paramount mind’: Wordsworth and the politics of the Mountain
- Chapter 7 ‘Sour Jacobinism’: William Hazlitt and the resistance to reform
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Despotism of liberty: Robespierre and the illusion of politics
- Chapter 2 The politics of confession in Rousseau and Robespierre
- Chapter 3 Chivalry, justice and the law in William Godwin's Caleb Williams
- Chapter 4 ‘The Prometheus of Sentiment’: Rousseau, Wollstonecraft and aesthetic education
- Chapter 5 Strangling the infant Hercules: Malthus and the population controversy
- Chapter 6 ‘The virtue of one paramount mind’: Wordsworth and the politics of the Mountain
- Chapter 7 ‘Sour Jacobinism’: William Hazlitt and the resistance to reform
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999