Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 62)

The Romantic age was one of anger and its consequences: revolution and reaction, terror and war. Andrew M. Stauffer explores the changing place of anger in the literature and culture of the period, as English men and women rethought their relationship to the aggressive passions in the wake of the French Revolution. Drawing on diverse fields and discourses such as aesthetics, politics, medicine, and the law, and tracing the classical legacy the Romantics inherited, Stauffer charts the period's struggle to define the relationship of anger to justice and the creative self. In their poetry and prose, Romantic authors including Blake, Coleridge, Godwin, Shelley, and Byron negotiate the meanings of indignation and rage amidst a clamorous debate over the place of anger in art and in civil society. This innovative book has much to contribute to the understanding of Romantic literature and the cultural history of the emotions. Half-title......Page 3 Series-title......Page 4 Title......Page 5 Copyright......Page 6 Dedication......Page 7 Contents......Page 9 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Abbreviations......Page 12 Introduction: fits of rage......Page 13 CHAPTER 1 Towards Romantic anger......Page 28 CHAPTER 2 Burke, Coleridge, and the rage for indignation......Page 50 CHAPTER 3 Inflammatory reactions......Page 76 CHAPTER 4 Provocation and the plot of anger......Page 99 CHAPTER 5 Shelley and the masks of anger......Page 122 CHAPTER 6 Byron’s curse......Page 145 Epilogue......Page 176 INTRODUCTION : FITS OF RAGE......Page 187 1 TOWARDS ROMANTIC ANGER......Page 190 2 BURKE, COLERIDGE, AND THE RAGE FOR INDIGNATION......Page 193 3 INFLAMMATORY REACTIONS......Page 198 4 PROVOCATION AND THE PLOT OF ANGER......Page 200 5 SHELLEY AND THE MASKS OF ANGER......Page 204 6 BYRON’S CURSE......Page 207 EPILOGUE......Page 210 Bibliography......Page 212 Index......Page 227 The Romantic age was one of anger and its consequences: revolution and reaction, terror and war. Andrew M. Stauffer explores the changing place of anger in the literature and culture of the period, as English men and women rethought their relationship to the aggressive passions in the wake of the French Revolution. Drawing on diverse fields and discourses such as aesthetics, politics, medicine and the law and tracing the classical legacy the Romantics inherited, Stauffer charts the period's struggle to define the relationship of anger to justice and the creative self. In their poetry and prose, Romantic authors including Blake, Coleridge, Godwin, Shelley and Byron negotiate the meanings of indignation and rage amidst a clamourous debate over the place of anger in art and in civil society. This innovative book has much to contribute to the understanding of Romantic literature and the cultural history of the emotions. Andrew M. Stauffer explores the changing place of anger in the literature and culture of the Romantic period, particularly in the poetry and prose of Blake, Coleridge, Godwin, Shelley, and Byron. This innovative book has much to contribute to the understanding of Romantic literature and the cultural history of emotions The Romantic age was one of anger and its consequences: terror and war, revolution and reaction. This text explores the changing place of anger in the literature and the culture of the period, as Englishmen and women rethought their relationship to the aggressive passions in the wake of the French Revolution