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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Notes -- Frontispiece -- Chronology -- Part I Life and Works -- Chapter 1 Biography -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Correspondence -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Family -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Joseph Johnson -- Notes -- Part II Critical Fortunes -- Chapter 5 Early Critical Reception -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Nineteenth-Century Critical Reception -- Notes -- Chapter 7 1970s Critical Reception -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Recent Critical Reception -- Notes -- Part III Historical and Cultural Contexts |
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The French Revolution Debate -- Chapter 9 Writing the French Revolution -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Radical Societies -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Radical Publishers -- Notes -- Chapter 12 British Conservatism -- Notes -- The Rights of Woman Debate -- Chapter 13 Jacobin Reformers -- Notes -- Chapter 14 Liberal Reformers -- Notes -- Chapter 15 Conservative Reformers -- Notes -- Philosophical Frameworks -- Chapter 16 French Philosophes -- Notes -- Chapter 17 Dissenters -- Notes -- Chapter 18 Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Notes -- Chapter 19 Edmund Burke -- Notes -- Chapter 20 William Godwin -- Notes |
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Chapter 21 Political Theory -- Notes -- Chapter 22 Feminist Theory -- Notes -- Legal and Social Culture -- Chapter 23 The Constitution -- Notes -- Chapter 24 Property Law -- Notes -- Chapter 25 Domestic Law -- Notes -- Chapter 26 Slavery and Abolition -- Notes -- Chapter 27 The Bluestockings -- Notes -- Chapter 28 Conduct Literature -- Notes -- Chapter 29 Theories of Education -- Notes -- Literature -- Chapter 30 Sentimentalism and Sensibility -- Notes -- Chapter 31 English Jacobin Novels -- Notes -- Chapter 32 Anti-Jacobin Novels -- Notes -- Chapter 33 Children's Literature -- Notes |
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Chapter 34 Gothic Literature -- Notes -- Chapter 35 Travel Writing -- Notes -- Chapter 36 History Writing -- Notes -- Chapter 37 Periodicals -- Notes -- Chapter 38 Translations -- Notes -- Suggested Further Reading -- Part I Life and Works -- 1 Biography -- 2 Correspondence -- 3 Family -- 4 Joseph Johnson -- Part II Critical Fortunes -- 5 Early Critical Reception -- 6 Nineteenth-Century Critical Reception -- 7 1970s Critical Reception -- 8 Recent Critical Reception -- Part III Historical and Cultural Contexts -- The French Revolution Debate -- 9 Writing the French Revolution |
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10 Radical Societies -- 11 Radical Publishers -- 12 British Conservatism -- The Rights of Woman Debate -- 13 Jacobin Reformers -- 14 Liberal Reformers -- 15 Conservative Reformers -- Philosophical Frameworks -- 16 French Philosophes -- 17 Dissenters -- 18 Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Works by Rousseau -- Secondary Criticism -- 19 Edmund Burke -- 20 William Godwin -- 21 Political Theory -- 22 Feminist Theory -- Legal and Social Culture -- 23 The Constitution -- 24 Property Law -- 25 Domestic Law -- 26 Slavery and Abolition -- 27 The Bluestockings -- 28 Conduct Literature -- 29 Theories of Education |
| Summary |
"An article that appeared in the April 1797 edition of the Monthly Magazine entitled "On Artificial Taste" offered readers a meditation on two of the most widely noted dimensions of this popular theme: "a taste for rural scenes" and the more "natural" quality of poetry that had been "written in the infancy of society." In some ways, both of these were standard topics, frequently discussed in the literary magazines of the day, though the article addressed them with compelling rigour and clarity, and with a refreshing impatience for empty poses and cultural double standards. It was curious, the author suggested, given people's widely professed love of nature, "how few people seem to contemplate nature with their own eyes. I have 'brushed the dew away' in the morning; but, pacing over the printless grass, I have wondered that, in such delightful situations, the sun was allowed to rise in solitary majesty, whilst my eyes alone hailed its beautifying beams." Having offered a no-nonsense reflection on the state of people's real interest in nature beyond the sort of "romantic kind of declamation" that was so much in vogue, the author moved on to offer a fairly standard list of the age's assumptions: poetry is a "transcript of immediate emotions" transfigured by the effects of those "happy moment[s]" in which the poet is enriched by images "spontaneously bursting on him" without the need for any recourse to "understanding or memory." This account of creativity, like the article's definition of the poet as "a man of strong feelings" giving "us a picture of his mind when he was actually alone, conversing with himself, and marking the impression which nature made on his own heart" seemed to converge with William Wordsworth's ideas about poetry in his Preface to the Lyrical Ballads. Its related insistence on the higher spiritual worth of those moments when the poet worshipped "in a temple not made with hands, and the world seems to contain only the mind that formed and contemplates it" seemed to echo Pysche's declaration of sublime internalization in Keats' ode. Except, of course, that the article was published in April 1797, well ahead of Wordsworth's account in the Preface to the 1800 edition of the Lyrical Ballads and a full generation before Keats's work"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 fast |
| Subject |
Intellectual life
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| SUBJECT |
England -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043303
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| Subject |
England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Johnson, Nancy E., 1956- editor.
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Keen, Paul, 1963- editor.
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| LC no. |
2019038179 |
| ISBN |
9781108261067 |
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110826106X |
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