Romantic atheism : poetry and freethought, 1780-1830 /
Romantic Atheism explores the links between English Romantic poetry and the first burst of outspoken atheism in Britain from the 1780s onwards. Martin Priestman examines the work of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron and Keats in their most intellectually radical periods, establishing the...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Schriftenreihe: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;
37. |
| Online-Zugang: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=77957 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 1. The atheism debate, 1780-1800
- 2. Masters of the universe: Lucretius, Sir William Jones, Richard Payne Knight and Erasmus Darwin
- 3. And did those feet? Blake in the 1790s
- 4. The tribes of mind: the Coleridge circle in the 1790s
- 5. Whatsoe'er is dim and vast: Wordsworth in the 1790s
- 6. Temples of reason: atheist strategies, 1800-1830
- 7. Pretty paganism: the Shelley generation in the 1810s.