Romanticism and the Rule of Law Coleridge, Blake, and the Autonomous Reader

Romanticism and the Rule of Law: Coleridge, Blake, and the Autonomous Reader
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030748774 | 242 Pages | PDF EPUB | 2 MB
This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "The Rule of Law" and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution. The bulk of this study focuses on Romantic literary replies to these events (primarily in the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake), but its latter stages also explore how Romantic poetry's construction of the autonomous reading subject continues to influence legal and literary critical reactions to two modern crises in the rule of law: European Fascism and the continuing instability of legal interpretive strategy.