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- The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Historical Developments
- Part II Literary Forms
- Part III Disciplinary Connections
- Chapter 14 Philosophy
- Chapter 15 Science
- Chapter 16 Politics
- Chapter 17 Music
- Chapter 18 Painting
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
- References
Chapter 16 - Politics
from Part III - Disciplinary Connections
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2021
- The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Historical Developments
- Part II Literary Forms
- Part III Disciplinary Connections
- Chapter 14 Philosophy
- Chapter 15 Science
- Chapter 16 Politics
- Chapter 17 Music
- Chapter 18 Painting
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
- References
Summary
This chapter explores politics in the British Romantic period through a close examination of the highly politicized religion of Dissent in the 1790s, tracing in particular its arguments in political tracts and sermons against slavery, the war with France, and the growing inequality between rich and poor. The centrality of religion to an understanding of revolution, rights of man discourse, public worship, and civil liberty is found in the writings of Richard Price, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with reference to Joseph Priestley, Joshua Toulmin, John Edwards, and John Prior Estlin. There is discussion of the chain of influence descending from Price to Barbauld to the young Coleridge, and a conclusion that looks at some of the continuities in Coleridge’s thinking between his earlier radicalism and his later prose works.
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- The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion , pp. 274 - 292Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021