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题名/责任者:

The fate of progress in British romanticism / Mark Canuel.

版本说明:

First edition.

出版发行项:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

出版发行项:

?2022

ISBN:

0192895303

ISBN:

9780192895301

载体形态项:

viii, 238 pages : lllustrations ; 24 cm.

个人责任者:

Canuel, Mark, author.

论题主题:

Romanticism-Great Britain.

论题主题:

Romanticism-Politics and government.

中图法分类号:

I561.06

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

摘要附注:

What did Romantic writers mean when they wrote about "progress" and "perfection"? This book shows how Romantic writers inventively responded to familiar ideas about political progress which they inherited from the eighteenth century. Whereas earlier writers such as Voltaire and John Millar likened improvements in political institutions to the progress of the sciences or refinement of manners, the novelists, poets, and political theorists examined in this book reimagined politically progressive thinking in multiple genres. While embracing a commitment to optimistic improvement--increasing freedom, equality, and protection from injury--they also cultivated increasingly visible and volatile energies of religious and political dissent. Earlier narratives of progress tended not only to edit and fictionalize history but also to agglomerate different modes of knowledge and practice in their quest to describe and prescribe uniform cultural improvement. But romantic writers seize on internal division and take it less as an occasion for anxiety, exclusion, or erasure, and more as an impetus to rethink the groundwork of progress itself. Political entities, from Percy Shelley's plans for political reform to Charlotte Smith's motley associations of strangers in The Banished Man, are progressive because they advance some version of collective utility or common good. But they simultaneously stake a claim to progress only insofar as they paradoxically solicit contending vantage points on the criteria for the very public benefit which they passionately pursue. The "majestic edifices" of Wordsworth's imagined university in The Prelude embrace members who are "republican or pious," not to mention the recalcitrant "enthusiast" who is the poet himself.

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