Title Sympathy and the state in the romantic era : systems, state finance, and the shadows of futurity / Robert Mitchell

Published New York : Routledge, [2007] ©2007

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Description x, 266 pages ; 24 cm Series Routledge studies in romanticism ; 8 Routledge studies in romanticism ; 9 Routledge studies in romanticism ; 9 Routledge studies in romanticism ; 8 Contents 1. Finance and the exchange of passions : the origins of the collective imagination -- 2. The violence of system : Rousseau and Smith on identification and sympathy -- 3. Antislavery poetry and the speculative subject -- 4. Systems and the parasite : Wordsworth and the financial crisis of 1797 -- 5. The ghost of gold : national debt, imagery, and the politics of sympathy in P. B. Shelley -- Conclusion : state finance, systems, and literary criticism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-251) and index Subject Sympathy in literature. English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Financial crises in literature. Finance, Public -- Great Britain -- History -- 1688-1815. System theory in literature. Capitalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History. Literature and morals. Romanticism -- Great Britain. LC no. 2006033856 ISBN 9780415771429 alkaline paper 0415771420 alkaline paper

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