Robert Mitchell

Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era

Systems, State Finance, and the Shadows of Futurity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shelley, but Mitchell also draws on periodicals, pamphlets, and parliamentary hearings to make the argument that Romantic era theories of sympathy developed new discourses about social systems intended both to explain, as well as contain, the often disruptive effects of state finance and speculation.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 162mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780415771429
• ISBN-10: 0415771420
• Artikelnr.: 21788793

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