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Author Jarrells, Anthony S., 1969- author.

Title Britain's bloodless revolutions : 1688 and the romantic reform of literature / Anthony S. Jarrells
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 229 pages)
Series Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
Contents PART I: VIOLENCE AND THE PURSUITS OF LITERATURE -- Why Literature -- Not the People -- Rose -- Lyrical Ballads and Terrorist Systems -- The Political Institution of Literature -- PART II: FROM THE BLOODLESS TO THE ROMANTIC REVOLUTION -- Jacobitism and Enlightenment -- Bloodless Revolution and the Form of the Novel
Summary In 1688 an institutional change subordinated the monarchy to the parliament, in part to avert the violence of the recent past. A century later a radical print culture threatened to take this process a step further and subordinate parliament to "the voice of the people". This did not happen. A shift from an expansive, Enlightenment-based print culture to a private, imaginative realm of literature redirected the powerful and effects of print and subordinated politics to culture. Romantic-period writers found in 1688 a model for containing the threat of popular violence that had come to be linked with freedom of the press and freedom of association. Not only did they write endlessly about bloodless Revolution, reinventing it in the process; they also wrote as bloodless Revolution, enacting this new form of politics and reinventing literature itself in the process. Against a more traditional reading of Romanticism, one that sees a revolutionary literature emerge from a failure to revolt, this book argues that literature did not manifest this failure but in fact helped to occasion it
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-223) and index
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Subject Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Knowledge -- History
Godwin, William, 1756-1836 -- Knowledge -- History
SUBJECT Godwin, William, 1756-1836 fast
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 fast
Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Romanticism -- Great Britain
Literature and history -- Great Britain
Revolutions in literature.
Jacobites in literature.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature.
History
English literature
Jacobites in literature
Literature and history
Revolutions in literature
Romanticism
SUBJECT France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Literature and the revolution
Great Britain -- History -- Revolution of 1688 -- Literature and the revolution
Subject France
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230503298
0230503292