Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s
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Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s

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Following the American War of Independence and the French Revolution, ideas of the 'Natural Rights of Man' (later distinguished into particular issues like rights of association, rights of women, slaves, children and animals) were publicly debated in England. Literary figures like Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Thelwall, Blake and Wordsworth reflected these struggles in their poetry and fiction. With the seminal influences of John Locke and Rousseau, these and many other writers laid for high Romantic Literature foundations that were not so much aesthetic as moral and political. This new study by R.S. White provides a reinterpretation of the Enlightenment as it is currently understood.

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Year
2005
ISBN
9780230506145

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. 1 From Natural Law to Natural Rights
  5. 2 The Social Passions: Benevolence and Sentimentality
  6. 3 Rights and Wrongs
  7. 4 Manifestoes into Fictions
  8. 5 Novels of Natural Rights in the 1790s
  9. 6 Slavery as Fact and Metaphor: William Blake and Jean Paul Marat
  10. 7 Rights of Children and Animals
  11. Conclusion
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index