Britain's Bloodless Revolutions explores the relationship of the emerging category of Literature to the emerging threat of popular violence between the Bloodless Revolution and the Romantic turn from revolution to reform. The book argues that at a time when the political nature of the Bloodless Revolution became a subject of debate - in the period defined by France's famously bloody revolution - 'Literature' emerged as a kind of political institution and constituted a bloodless revolution in its own right.

Autorentext
ANTHONY JARRELLS teaches English at William Paterson University

Inhalt
Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: VIOLENCE AND THE PURSUITS OF LITERATURE Why Literature - Not the People - Rose Lyrical Ballads and Terrorist Systems The Political Institution of Literature PART II: FROM THE BLOODLESS TO THE ROMANTIC REVOLUTION Jacobitism and Enlightenment Bloodless Revolution and the Form of the Novel Notes Bibliography Index