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Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s (PDF eBook) 2005 ed.


Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s (PDF eBook) 2005 ed.

eBook by White, R.

Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s (PDF eBook)

£44.99

ISBN:
9780230506145
Publication Date:
22 Nov 2005
Edition:
2005 ed.
Publisher:
Springer Nature
Imprint:
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages:
277 pages
Format:
eBook
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Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s (PDF eBook)

Description

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.

Contents

Acknowledgements From Natural Law to Natural Rights The Social Passions: Benevolence and Sentimentality Rights and Wrongs Manifestoes into Fictions Novels of Natural Rights in the 1790s Slavery as Fact and Metaphor: William Blake and Jean Paul Marat The Rights of Children and Nature Conclusion

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