{"product_id":"romantic-atheism-poetry-and-freethought-1780-1830-hardback-9780521621243","title":"Romantic Atheism; Poetry and Freethought, 1780–1830 (Hardback) 9780521621243","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRomantic Atheism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePoetry and Freethought, 1780–1830\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book explores the links between Romantic poetry and the first burst of outspoken atheism in Britain.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartin Priestman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521621243, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 January 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e326 pages, 7 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.65 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...a very conscientious, diligent, helpful, even moving book.  Readers who share his assumptions may consider it definative.\"   North Dakota Quarterly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eRomantic Atheism explores the links between English Romantic poetry and the first burst of outspoken atheism in Britain from the 1780s onwards. Martin Priestman examines the work of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron and Keats in their most intellectually radical periods, establishing the depth of their engagement with such discourses, and in some cases their active participation. Equal attention is given to less canonical writers: such poet-intellectuals as Erasmus Darwin, Sir William Jones, Richard Payne Knight and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and controversialists including Holbach, Volney, Paine, Priestley, Godwin, Richard Carlile and Eliza Sharples (these last two in particular representing the close links between punishably outspoken atheism and radical working-class politics). Above all, the book conveys the excitement of Romantic atheism, whose dramatic appeals to new developments in politics, science and comparative mythology lend it a protean energy belied by the common and more recent conception of 'loss of faith'.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The atheism debate, 1780–1800\u003cbr\u003e 2. Masters of the universe: Lucretius, Sir William Jones, Richard Payne Knight and Erasmus Darwin\u003cbr\u003e 3. And did those feet? Blake in the 1790s\u003cbr\u003e 4. The tribes of mind: the Coleridge circle in the 1790s\u003cbr\u003e 5. Whatsoe'er is dim and vast: Wordsworth in the 1790s\u003cbr\u003e 6. Temples of reason: atheist strategies, 1800–30\u003cbr\u003e 7. Pretty paganism: the Shelley generation in the 1810s\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Glossary of theological and other terms\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20poetry%20\u0026amp;%20poets%20%5BDSC%5D%22\"\u003eDSC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46129270325528,"sku":"9780521621243","price":77.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521621243i.jpg?v=1691666510","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/romantic-atheism-poetry-and-freethought-1780-1830-hardback-9780521621243","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}