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Romantics and Renegades

The Poetics of Political Reaction

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Charles Mahoney

    1. University of Connecticut, USA

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: On the Discrimination of Apostasies

    • Charles Mahoney
    Pages 1-12

  3. “The Laureate Hearse Where Lyric Lies”: The Making of Romantic Apostasy

    • Charles Mahoney
    Pages 13-32

  4. The Mausoleum of Independence

    • Charles Mahoney
    Pages 33-79

  5. “Lawless Sway,” Pendulous Politics

    • Charles Mahoney
    Pages 80-122

  6. Facing the Past: Spectral Apostasies

    • Charles Mahoney
    Pages 123-142

  7. Upstaging the Fall: The Spectacle of Romantic Apostasy

    • Charles Mahoney
    Pages 143-166

  8. Criticism on the Verge

    • Charles Mahoney
    Pages 167-197

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 198-266
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Romantics and Renegades examines the abiding crux of romantic criticism: the political apostasies of the Lake poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey) as they renounced the revolutionary Jacobinism of their youth in the 1790s in order to claim the high ground of Regency Toryism in the 1810s. Central to this scandal is the figure of William Hazlitt, the literary critic who policed their betrayals in his vigilant exposure of their political and poetical inconsistencies. Mahoney's analysis provides new insight into this abiding critical riddle through close historical and figural readings of the rhetoric of romantic apostasy.

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  • University of Connecticut, USA

    Charles Mahoney

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CHARLES MAHONEY is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

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