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This study invites researchers of Romantic literature and literary and political culture to consider how this period's imaginings of the end of the world shaped thinking about politics and political change. Its highly original arguments on this current theme will interest students of political thought, affect theory, and ecocriticism.

Table of Contents
1. The end of politics and the end of the world; 2. The last Whigs; 3. Byron, Brougham, and the end of slavery; 4. 'Crowns in the Dust': the ends of politics in The Last Man; 5. New worlds: Frankenstein, The Island, and the ends of the earth.

Late Romanticism and the End of Politics

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 4/13/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781009289207, 978-1009289207
      ISBN10: 1009289209
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      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: poetry and poets

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This study invites researchers of Romantic literature and literary and political culture to consider how this period's imaginings of the end of the world shaped thinking about politics and political change. Its highly original arguments on this current theme will interest students of political thought, affect theory, and ecocriticism.

      Table of Contents
      1. The end of politics and the end of the world; 2. The last Whigs; 3. Byron, Brougham, and the end of slavery; 4. 'Crowns in the Dust': the ends of politics in The Last Man; 5. New worlds: Frankenstein, The Island, and the ends of the earth.

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