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.
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.
John Owen Havard is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University. He is the author of Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760-1830 (2019). His articles and essays on the Byron circle, party politics, political emotion, and the future of democracy have appeared in ELH, Nineteenth-Century Literature, The Byron Journal, The New Rambler and Public Books.
Inhaltsangabe
1. 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.
1. 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.
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