Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture'

by Connell, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780198185055
• ISBN10: 0198185057
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Drawing on a wide range of source material, the book situates canonical Romantic writers within a nuanced, and highly detailed ideological context, while challenging our inherited understanding of the Romantic tradition itself as the social conscience of nineteenth-century capitalism.

Author Biography

Philip Connell is Research Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge

Table of Contents

Introduction The Condition of England	1	(12)
`A Deeper Nature': Malthus, Poetry, and Political Economy	13	(50)
Wordsworth among the Economists: the Case of 'The Old Cumberland Beggar'	16	(9)
The Origins of Lake School Anti-Economism	25	(16)
Wordsworth, Malthus, and the 1805 Prelude	41	(22)
Moral Culture and the March of Mind: Education and Economics in the Early Nineteenth Century	63	(58)
The proper and liberal culture of the mind': Dugald Stewart and Enlightenment	67	(9)
Useful Knowledge and the Intellectual Division of Labour	76	(17)
'The best muse of all elegance and refinement': Whig Politics and Polite Letters in the Edinburgh Review	93	(8)
William Roscoe, Samuel Bailey, and the Case for Bourgeois Philistinism	101	(10)
Thomas Chalmers and the Evangelical Economy of the Gospel	111	(10)
The Politics of Apostasy: Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Lake School Literary Conservatism	121	(67)
Counter-Revolution, `Cultivation', and Conservative Educational Discourse	127	(20)
From the National Debt to the National Church	147	(13)
`The Master Idol of the Realm': The Political Economy of Wordsworth's Excursion	160	(21)
Coda: Thomas De Quincey, Liberal Toryism, and Literary Power	181	(7)
Radicals, Reformers, and Legislators of the World	188	(46)
Cobbett, Hazlitt, and Radical Anti-Economism	192	(18)
`The genius of a legislator': Shelley, Bentham, and the Hunt Circle	210	(24)
Robert Southey and the Infections of Commerce	234	(40)
Representing Reformation	241	(6)
`This distempered age': The Epidemiology of Opinion	247	(11)
The Colloquies on Society: Politics, History, and the Public Mind	258	(7)
Southey, Malthus, and Cultural Glut	265	(9)
CONCLUSION: THE POLITICS OF ROMANTICISM	274	(23)
The Rise and Fall of Romantic Critique	276	(8)
`Tories, High Churchmen, and Apostles: The Ideological Legacy of the Lake School	284	(13)
Select Bibliography	297	(28)
Index	325