The Politics of Nature

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Romantic Historicism in the 1990s

   1. Introduction:Romantic Historicism in the 1990s

      • Nicholas Roe

      Pages 1-13

3. Part One

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. ‘Unremembered Kindness’: George Dyer and English Romanticism

      • Nicholas Roe

      Pages 17-35

   3. Robert Southey and the Origins of Pantisocracy

      • Nicholas Roe

      Pages 36-55

   4. The Politics of ‘New Morality’ Lamb, Coleridge, Wordsworth

      • Nicholas Roe

      Pages 56-72

4. Part Two

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. The Prison Diary of John Augustus Bonney

      • Nicholas Roe

      Pages 75-97

5. Part Three

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. Wordsworth’s Secrecy: Gorsas and ‘The Philanthropist’

      • Nicholas Roe

      Pages 101-116

   3. The Politics of the Wye Valley: Re-Placing ‘Tintern Abbey’

      • Nicholas Roe

      Pages 117-136

   4. ‘Adam of a New World’: Lyrical Ballads and The Prelude

      • Nicholas Roe

      Pages 137-152

   5. Epilogue: The Noise of the Sea

      • Nicholas Roe

      Pages 153-155

6. Back Matter

   Pages 156-186

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Taking into account recent developments in historical and ecological criticism, and incorporating fresh research into poetry and politics in the 1790s, the second edition of The Politics of Nature enlarges and updates Nicholas Roe's acclaimed study of Romanticism. Hitherto marginal figures are restored to prominence, and there is new material on William Wordsworth's radical years. The book includes the full text of John Thelwall's Essay on Animal Vitality with commentary, exploring how ideas of nature, revolution and radical science entwined.

• Coleridge
• lyric
• poetry
• Romanticism
• Wordsworth

• University of St Andrews, UK

  Nicholas Roe

NICHOLAS ROE is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His books include Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years, John Keats and the Culture of Dissent, and, as editor Keats and History and Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life.

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