Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790–1830.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge Studies in RomanticismPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (329 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780511148293Subject(s): English literature--19th century--History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790–1830DDC classification: 820.9 LOC classification: PR468.R44 C36 2002Online resources: Click to ViewCover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Romanticism and the writing of toleration -- A CHIMERICAL PROJECT -- ESTABLISHING PREJUDICE: EDMUND BURKE AND THE LOGIC OF PROTESTANT LEGACY -- IMPERIUM IN IMPERIO -- OR, THE LOGIC OF ANGLICAN PANIC -- LOCKE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM -- BENTHAM AND THE RULE OF BELIEF -- COMMUNITY BEYOND COMMUNION -- CHAPTER 2 "Holy hypocrisy" and the rule of belief: Radcliffe's Gothics -- THE GOTHIC CONSENSUS -- SOUTHEY AND THE MONASTIC ENCLOSURE -- RADCLIFFE'S JOURNEY AND THE REGIONS OF BELIEF -- THE ITALIAN AND CRIMES OF BELIEF -- THE GOTHIC PURSUIT OF JUSTICE -- GODWIN, MANDEVILLE, AND THE TRIUMPH OF TOLERATION -- CHAPTER 3 Coleridge's polemic divinity -- THE WATCHMAN'S ORGANIZED DISSENT -- BELIEF AND DISASSOCIATION -- LIVING BY FAITH -- OR, THE FIRM SOD OF PATRIOTISM -- THE SELF THAT NO ALIEN KNOWS -- CHAPTER 4 Sect and secular economy in the Irish national tale -- THE REGIONS OF PURER INTELLECT -- PRIVACY AND PREJUDICE: THE ECONOMY OF HARRINGTON -- ENNUI AND THE NATION-EFFECT -- DELEGATED AGENCY AND THE BUSINESS OF MINUTE DETAIL -- FASHIONING UNION: THE ABSENTEE -- SCOTT, TOLERATION, AND THE NATIONAL TALE -- CHAPTER 5 Wordsworth and "the frame of social being" -- THE CONSTITUTIONS OF BELIEF -- PLACING BELIEF IN THE EXCURSION -- THE DILEMMA OF THE SOLITARY AND THE SOCIABILITY OF DISSENT -- RELIGION AS SOCIETY, SOCIETY AS RELIGION: FROM "THE WANDERER" TO THE "AUTHENTIC EPITAPHS" -- POETRY, POPULATIONS, AND THE PROVIDENTIAL STATE -- THE PRELUDE'S HYPOTHETICAL ESTABLISHMENT AND THE "FRAME OF SOCIAL BEING" -- ESTABLISHMENT, TOLERATION, AND THE INSTITUTION OF POETRY -- CHAPTER 6 "Consecrated fancy": Byron and Keats -- ORPHAN OF THE HEART: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE -- RELIGIOUS RUIN, POETIC SURVIVAL.
OR, WHY THE ONLY GOOD NATION IS A DEAD ONE -- KEATS, POETIC OATHS, AND VULGAR SUPERSTITIONS -- SEEMING AND BELIEVING: THE GOTHIC MUSE AND THE EVE OF ST. AGNES -- LAMIA, A POEM FOR THE NON-ELECT -- CHAPTER 7 Conclusion: the Inquisitorial stage -- DON CARLOS AND THE AESTHETICS OF PERSECUTION -- THE CENCI AND THE RULES OF ENLIGHTENED ART -- CAIN, BLASPHEMY, AND THE INVENTION OF MURDER -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 ROMANTICISM AND THE WRITING OF TOLERATION -- 2 "HOLY HYPOCRISY" AND THE RULE OF BELIEF: RADCLIFFE'S GOTHICS -- 3 COLERIDGE'S POLEMIC DIVINITY -- 4 SECT AND SECULAR ECONOMY IN THE IRISH NATIONAL TALE -- 5 WORDSWORTH AND "THE FRAME OF SOCIAL BEING" -- 6 "CONSECRATED FANCY": BYRON AND KEATS -- 7 CONCLUSION: THE INQUISITORIAL STAGE -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Canuel examines the way that Romantic writers criticized the traditional grounding of British political unity in religious conformity.
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