Author : C. Mahoney
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230597629
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Book Synopsis Romantics and Renegades by : C. Mahoney
Download or read book Romantics and Renegades written by C. Mahoney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-11-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantics and Renegades examines the abiding crux of romantic criticism: the political apostasies of the Lake poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey) as they renounced the revolutionary Jacobinism of their youth in the 1790s in order to claim the high ground of Regency Toryism in the 1810s. Central to this scandal is the figure of William Hazlitt, the literary critic who policed their betrayals in his vigilant exposure of their political and poetical inconsistencies. Mahoney's analysis provides new insight into this abiding critical riddle through close historical and figural readings of the rhetoric of romantic apostasy.