The qualities and achievements of eighteenth century English
literature have suffered denigration as a result of a prevailing
Whig interpretation of literary history. It is the contention of
this book, originally published in 1986, that an alternative form
of Whig interpretation is possible and even desirable. It has as
its sphere of interest the ways in which views on the nature and
benefits of political freedom, and various "whiggish" readings of
literary history, political theory and aesthetics, did in fact
shape literary and social changes through the eighteenth century.
Many characteristic Romantic tenets can be seen as springing, not
fully formed from the heads of their creators, but directly out of
the aesthetic concerns focusing around Longinus, and the
recognition of the historically singular nature of the British
constitution. This book studies and analyses the forms such
concerns took in several of the central thinkers and writers of the
period, and is an important contribution to the understanding of
the eighteenth century milieu.
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