Robert Mitchell

Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era (eBook, PDF)

Systems, State Finance, and the Shadows of Futurity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era explores a fascinating connection between two seemingly unrelated Romantic-era discourses, outlining the extent to which eighteenth and early nineteenth century theories of sympathy were generated by crises of state finance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135983666
• Artikelnr.: 39959653

Autorenporträt

Robert Mitchell is Assistant Professor of English at Duke University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Finance and the Exchange of Passions: The Origins of the Collective Imagination
Chapter 2. The Violence of System: Rousseau and Smith on Identification and Sympathy
Chapter 3. Anti-Slavery Poetry and the Speculative Subject
Chapter 4. Systems and the Parasite: Wordsworth and the Financial Crisis of 1797
Chapter 5. The Ghost of Gold: National Debt, Imagery, and the Politics of Sympathy in P. B. Shelley
Conclusion. State Finance, Systems, and Literary Criticism
Endnotes
Bibliography