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Late Romanticism and the End of Politics : Byron, Mary Shelley and the Last Men by John Havard (2023, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101009289209
ISBN-139781009289207
eBay Product ID (ePID)12058357166
Product Key Features
Book TitleLate Romanticism and the End of Politics : Byron, Mary Shelley and the Last Men
Number of Pages217 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2023
TopicEuropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
IllustratorYes
FeaturesNew Edition
GenreLiterary Criticism
AuthorJohn Havard
Book SeriesCambridge Studies in Romanticism Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2022-038078
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal820.9145
Table Of Content1. The end of politics and the end of the world; 2. The last Whigs; 3. Byron, Brougham, and the end of slavery; 4. 'Crowns in the Dust': the ends of politics in The Last Man; 5. New worlds: Frankenstein, The Island, and the ends of the earth.
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
SynopsisIn the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen empires, sinking islands, and dying stars to the making and unmaking of populations in Frankenstein and The Last Man. These works intersected with and enclosed reflections upon brewing political changes. By imagining political dynasties, slavery, parliament, and English law reaching an end, writers challenged liberal visions of the political future that viewed the basis of governance as permanently settled. The prospect of volcanic eruptions and biblical deluges, meanwhile, pointed towards new political worlds, forged in the ruins of this one. These visions of coming to an end acquire added resonance in our own time, as political and planetary end-times converge once again., This study invites researchers of Romantic literature and literary and political culture to consider how this period's imaginings of the end of the world shaped thinking about politics and political change. Its highly original arguments on this current theme will interest students of political thought, affect theory, and ecocriticism.
LC Classification NumberPR457.H28 2023
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