Title Rousseau, Robespierre, and English Romanticism / Gregory Dart

Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Description xi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 32 Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 32 Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- 1. Despotism of liberty: Robespierre and the illusion of politics -- 2. The politics of confession in Rousseau and Robespierre -- 3. Chivalry, justice and the law in William Godwin's Caleb Williams -- 4. 'The Prometheus of Sentiment': Rousseau, Wollstonecraft and aesthetic education -- 5. Strangling the infant Hercules: Malthus and the population controversy -- 6. 'The virtue of one paramount mind': Wordsworth and the politics of the mountain -- 7. 'Sour Jacobinism': WIlliam Hazlitt and the resistance to reform -- Bibliography Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-281) and index Subject Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794 -- Influence. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Influence. English literature -- French influences. English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Romanticism -- Great Britain. SUBJECT France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Foreign public opinion, British. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115101 France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051332 LC no. 98007920 ISBN 0521641004

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