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The Ethics of Romanticism

  • Paperback
  • 512 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.9 cm

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For students and scholars of Romantic literature

Clarifies the ethical engagement in Romantic writings

You will gain deep insights into Romantic ethics

The Ethics of Romanticism explores the ethical dimensions of Romantic literature.

In The Ethics of Romanticism Laurence Lockridge vigorously revives ethical criticism and at the same time brings to light the Romantics' profound engagement with ethical questions. He argues that a will to value is the pervasive motive of Romantic writers from Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and De Quincey to Shelley, Hazlitt, Keats and Byron. They articulate a compelling ethics that has had a significant influence on modern thought. Yet its character has never before been systematically explored within the larger contexts of European thought. Lockridge argues that a focus on the ethical dimension of literature is the single most powerful strategy for structuring a writer's work as a whole, and that it can even prove congenial. He gives original, interrelated readings of the eight major British Romantic writers. In discussing the place of ethical criticism in modern letters, he qualifies or refutes opposing views - conservative, Marxist, and deconstructive. His book gives strong evidence of one direction criticism might fruitfully take in future years.

  • Title

    The Ethics of Romanticism

  • Author

    Laurence S. Lockridge

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    November 2005

  • Weight

    745g

  • Page Count

    512

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521021609

  • ISBN-10

    052102160X

  • Eden Code

    4574607

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