Britain's Bloodless Revolutions explores the relationship of the emerging category of Literature to the emerging threat of popular violence between the Bloodless Revolution and the Romantic turn from revolution to reform. The book argues that at a...
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Britain's Bloodless Revolutions explores the relationship of the emerging category of Literature to the emerging threat of popular violence between the Bloodless Revolution and the Romantic turn from revolution to reform. The book argues that at a time when the political nature of the Bloodless Revolution became a subject of debate - in the period defined by France's famously bloody revolution - 'Literature' emerged as a kind of political institution and constituted a bloodless revolution in its own right
Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-223) and index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: 1688 and the Romantic Reform of Literature; Part I Violence and the Pursuits of Literature; Part II From the Bloodless to the Romantic Revolution; Notes; Bibliography; Index
