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Author:

Havard, John Owen, author.

Title:

Late Romanticism and the end of politics : Byron, Mary Shelley and the last men / John Havard, Binghamton University.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

ix, 234 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Romanticism--Great Britain.
End of the world in literature.
Politics in literature.
Authors, English--19th century--Political and social views.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Where will it end? -- The end of politics and the end of the world -- The last Whigs -- Byron, Brougham, and the end of slavery -- "Crowns in the dust" : the ends of politics in The last man -- New worlds : Frankenstein, The island, and the ends of the earth -- Coda: Don Juan and the ends of literature.

Summary:

"In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen empires, sinking islands, and dying stars to the making and unmaking of populations in Frankenstein and The Last Man. These works intersected with and enclosed reflections upon brewing political changes. By imagining political dynasties, slavery, parliament, and English law reaching an end, writers challenged liberal visions of the political future that viewed the basis of governance as permanently settled. The prospect of volcanic eruptions and biblical deluges, meanwhile, pointed towards new political worlds, forged in the ruins of this one. These visions of coming to an end acquire added resonance in our own time, as political and planetary end-times converge once again. John Owen Havard is Assistant Professor of English at Binghamton University. He is the author of Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760-1830 (2019). His articles and essays on the Byron circle, party politics, political emotion, and the future of democracy have appeared in ELH, Nineteenth-Century Literature, The Byron Journal, The New Rambler and Public Books"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Cambridge studies in romanticism ; 140

ISBN:

1009289209
9781009289207

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1356215986

LCCN:

2022038078

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)