This provocative and timely volume examines the activity of seeking justice through literature during the 'age of revolutions' from 1750 to 1850 - a period whic

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

[headline]Explores the pursuit of justice through the processes of writing, reading and interpreting in Enlightenment and Romantic-period literature This provoc

Examines Scottish Romantic writers’ shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead Describes the role played by death and the grave in Sc

This book argues for the importance of blasphemy in shaping the literature and readership of Percy Bysshe Shelley and of the Romantic period more broadly. Not o