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Secular Chains offers an original and richly contextualized account
of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy
between 1649 and 1745. This was a period of political conflict and
intellectual upheaval, in which traditional sources of spiritual
authority were variously challenged and transformed. This study
reveals the importance of English literary culture for our
understanding of this process, and throws new light on the dynamics
of change and continuity between the puritan revolution and the
early Enlightenment. Based on extensive research in both printed
and manuscript sources, the book combines detailed case studies of
major literary figures with a sustained historical narrative
linking the republican moment of the 1650s, the conflicts and
crises of the Restoration, and the ecclesiastical politics of the
early eighteenth century. Milton and Dryden provide the principal
focus of the first three chapters, which explore the divisive issue
of church settlement in the work of both writers, together with the
increasingly prominent rhetoric of anti-clericalism and irreligion
in the poetry and polemics of the later seventeenth century.
Subsequent chapters extend the book's argument to the embattled
condition of the Church of England in the decades after 1688, and
the significant contribution of contemporary literary culture to a
range of religious and philosophical argument, from heterodox
free-thinking to Newtonian natural theology. Secular Chains
demonstrates the close and continued relationship between poetry
and religious politics in the age of Milton and Pope, and provides
a new framework for understanding this complex and turbulent period
in English literary history.
From the ballad-seller to the Highland bard, from 'pot-house
politics' to the language of low and rustic life, the writers and
artists of the British Romantic period drew eclectic inspiration
from the realm of plebeian experience, even as they helped to
constitute the field of popular culture as a new object of polite
consumption. Representing the work of leading scholars from both
Britain and North America, Romanticism and Popular Culture in
Britain and Ireland offers a series of fascinating insights into
changing representations of 'the people', while demonstrating at
the same time a unifying commitment to rethinking some of the
fundamental categories that have shaped our view of the Romantic
period. Addressing a series of key themes, including the ballad
revival, popular politics, urbanization, and literary
canon-formation, the 2009 volume also contains a substantial
introductory essay, which provides a wide-ranging theoretical and
historical overview of the subject.
From the ballad-seller to the Highland bard, from 'pot-house
politics' to the language of low and rustic life, the writers and
artists of the British Romantic period drew eclectic inspiration
from the realm of plebeian experience, even as they helped to
constitute the field of popular culture as a new object of polite
consumption. Representing the work of leading scholars from both
Britain and North America, Romanticism and Popular Culture in
Britain and Ireland offers a series of fascinating insights into
changing representations of 'the people', while demonstrating at
the same time a unifying commitment to rethinking some of the
fundamental categories that have shaped our view of the Romantic
period. Addressing a series of key themes, including the ballad
revival, popular politics, urbanization, and literary
canon-formation, the 2009 volume also contains a substantial
introductory essay, which provides a wide-ranging theoretical and
historical overview of the subject.
The Romantic age in Britain formed one of the most celebrated moments in literary history, but it also witnessed the rise of 'political economy' as the most prestigious science of nineteenth-century capitalist society. Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture' investigates this historical conjunction, and challenges the influential idea that Romantic writers such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley were implacably opposed to the abstract, individualistic view of human nature embodied in the new science of economics. This book is interdisciplinary in its scope and methods. It will be of interest to teachers and students of both English Literature and History.
The Romantic age in Britain formed one of the most celebrated--and
heterogeneous--moments in literary history, but it also witnessed
the rise of "political economy" as the pre-eminent
nineteenth-century science of society. Romanticism, Economics and
the Question of 'Culture' investigates this historical conjunction,
and reassesses the idea that the Romantic defense of spiritual and
humanistic "culture" developed as a reaction to the
individualistic, philistine values of the "dismal science."
Drawing on a wide range of source material, the book combines the
methods of literary scholarship and intellectual history. It
addresses the changing political identifications of familiar
literary figures such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, but
also illuminates the wider political and intellectual life of this
period.
Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture' situates
canonical Romantic writers within a nuanced, and highly detailed
ideological context, while challenging our inherited understanding
of the Romantic tradition itself as the social conscience of
nineteenth-century capitalism.
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