Romanticism and revolution : a reader /: a reader. (2010)

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• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jon Mee and David Fallon.
• Other Names: Mee, Jon; Fallon, David James, 1977-
• Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements. A Note on the Texts. Introduction. 1. Richard Price, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country. [What has the love of their country hitherto been among mankind?] [A narrower interest must give way to a more extensive interest]. [Every degree of illumination … hastens the overthrow of priestcraft and tyranny]. [The principles of the Revolution]. [Be encouraged, all ye friends of freedom and writers in its defence!] 2. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London relative to That Event. [All the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction]. [The public declaration of a man much connected with literary caballers]. [The two principles of conservation and correction]. [The very idea of the fabrication of a new government, is enough to fill us with disgust and horror]. [Our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers]. [Their blow was aimed at an hand holding out graces, favours, and immunities]. [A profligate disregard of a dignity which they partake with others]. [The real rights of men]. [But the age of chivalry is gone. – That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded]. [The real tragedy of this triumphal day]. [We have not … lost the generosity and dignity of thinking of the fourteenth century]. [Society is indeed a contract]. [The political Men of Letters]. [We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history]. [By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little]. [Old establishments … are the results of various necessities and expediencies]. [Some popular general … shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself]. 3. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. Advertisement. [I have not yet learned to twist my periods, nor … to disguise my sentiments]. [I perceive … that you have a mortal antipathy to reason]. [The champion of property, the adorer of the golden image which power has set up]. [Misery, to reach your heart, I perceive, must have its cap and bells]. [In reprobating Dr. Price's opinions you might have spared the man]. [The younger children have been sacrificed to the eldest son]. [The respect paid to rank and fortune damps every generous purpose of the soul]. [The spirit of romance and chivalry is in the wane; and reason will gain by its extinction]. [Reason at second-hand]. [This fear of God makes me reverence myself]. [The cold arguments of reason, that give no sex to virtue]. [What were the outrages of a day to these continual miseries?]. 4. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. [The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave]. [Mr. Burke has set up a sort of political Adam, in whom all posterity are bound for ever]. [Mr. Burke does not attend to the distinction between men and principles]. [The Quixote age of chivalry nonsense is gone]. [Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity]. [We are now got at the origin of man, and at the origin of his rights]. [The natural rights of man … the civil rights of man]. [Governments must have arisen, either out of the people, or over the people]. [Titles are but nick-names … a sort of foppery in the human character which degrades it]. [Toleration is not the opposite of Intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it]. [The church with the state, a sort of mule animal]. Miscellaneous Chapter. Conclusion. [In mixed Governments there is no responsibility]. [The Revolutions of America and France, are a renovation of the natural order of things]. [It is an age of Revolutions, in which every thing may be looked for]. 5. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. To M. Talleyrand-Périgord, Late Bishop of Autun. [The prevailing notion respecting a sexual character was subversive of morality]. Introduction. [I shall disdain to cull my phrases or polish my style]. Chap. II The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed. [The grand end of their exertions should be to unfold their own faculties]. [To endeavour to reason love out of the world, would be to out Quixote Cervantes]. [Surely she has not an immortal soul who can loiter life away]. Chap. III The Same Subject Continued. [It is time to effect a revolution in female manners]. Chap. IV Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced by Various Causes. [Their senses are inflamed, and their understandings neglected]. Chap. V Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt – Sect. i [Rousseau]. [Is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?]. [Let us then … arrive at perfection of body]. Sect. ii [Dr. Fordyce's sermons]. [Why are girls to be told that they resemble angels; but to sink them below women?]. Chap. VI The Effect Which an Early Association of Ideas Has upon the Character. Chap. VII Modesty. – Comprehensively Considered, and Not as a Sexual Virtue. [Those women who have most improved their reason must have the most modesty]. Chap. VIII Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation. [If the honour of a woman … is safe, she may neglect every social duty]. [The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other]. Chap. IX Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society. [How can a being be generous who has nothing of its own? or virtuous, who is not free? [I really think that women ought to have representatives]. Chap. X Parental Affection. Chap. XI Duty to Parents. [They are prepared for the slavery of marriage]. Chap. XII On National Education. [Morality, polluted in the national reservoir, sends off streams of vice]. Chap. XIII Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates; with Concluding Reflections on the Moral Improvement That a Revolution in Female Manners Might Naturally Be Expected to Produce – Sect. ii. [Sentimental jargon]. Sect. vi [Women at present are by ignorance rendered foolish or vicious]. [Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man]. 6. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice. Preface. Introduction. Chap. I Of Society and Civilization. Chap. II Of the Origin of the Present Old Governments. Chap. III Of the Old and New Systems of Government. [Republicanism]. [Monarchy … is a scene of perpetual court cabal and intrigue]. Chap. IV Of Constitutions. [Government … has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties]. [The bill of rights is more properly a bill of wrongs]. [The sepulchre of precedents]. [Europe may form but one great Republic]. Chap. V Ways and Means of Improving the Condition of Europe, Interspersed with Miscellaneous Observations. [I have been an advocate for commerce, because I am a friend to its effects]. [When … we see age going to the workhouse and youth to the gallows, something must be wrong in the system of government]. [The aristocracy are … the drones, a seraglio of males]. [The plan is easy in practice]. [Active and passive revolutions]. [In what light religion appears to me]. [What pace the political summer may keep with the natural, no human foresight can determine]. 7. William Godwin, An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness. Preface. Book I Of the Importance of Political Institutions – Chap. i Introduction. Chap. ii History of Political Soc
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (216 pages)
• Subjects: 820.80145; English literature -- 18th century; Romanticism -- Great Britain; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Literature and the revolution
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781444393491
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