Romanticism and the Rule of Law

Coleridge, Blake, and the Autonomous Reader

Mark L. Barr (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

X, 244 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-74880-7 (ISBN)

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This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "The Rule of Law" and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution. The bulk of this study focuses on Romantic literary replies to these events (primarily in the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake), but its latter stages also explore how Romantic poetry's construction of the autonomous reading subject continues to influence legal and literary critical reactions to two modern crises in the rule of law: European Fascism and the continuing instability of legal interpretive strategy.

Mark L. Barr is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

1 Introduction.- 2 A Legal Genealogy of the Romantic Imagination- 3 Coleridge's Poetic Dispensation.- 4 Imagination and the Lyric Constitution.- 5 Blake's Perpetual Revolution.- 6 The Gospel of Minute Particulars.- 7 Epilogue.

"Barr has succeeded in producing an effective piece of scholarship, giving a lively account of the legal issues of the day, and developing an ingenious, thought-provoking approach to the intersections between law and cultural production. ... Barr has established his place in this field, and anyone who wants to work in 'Romanticism and law' will have to engage with this account one way or another. I look forward to any future work from this scholar ... ." (Richard Ian Berkeley, The Coleridge Bulletin, Vol. 62, 2023)

Erscheinungsdatum	09.08.2022
Zusatzinfo	X, 244 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	339 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Albert Venn Dicey • Autonomy • British Culture • French Revolution • Legal History • Legal Institutions • lyric • Metaphysics • Poetry • radicalism • Romanticism • Sublime
ISBN-10	3-030-74880-4 / 3030748804
ISBN-13	978-3-030-74880-7 / 9783030748807
Zustand	Neuware