Romanticism and Revolution A Reader [Hardcover]

• Presents readings chronologically to allow readers to experience the unfolding of the debate as it occurred in the 1790s
• Provides an accessible and in-depth sampling of the major contributors to the Revolution debate, from Price, Burke, and Paine to Wollstonecraft and Godwin 

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 olãB