Statesman's Science: History, Nature, and Law in the Political Thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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"In Edwards's careful and scholarly hands, the writings of Coleridge allow readers to see the extreme difficulty of understanding a great mind." -- Rafael Major, Ashland University, Perspectives on Political Science


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"This is a profound and subtle study of one of the most misunderstood of British political thinkers. New readers of Coleridge should start here." -- Jonathan Clark, University of Kansas


Book Description
This innovative book examines the fundamental continuities in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's writing during the revolutionary period of 1794 through 1834 to demonstrate his importance as a political philosopher and to recover romanticism as both an aesthetic and political movement.


About the Author
Pamela Edwards is assistant professor of modern British history in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and has published reviews and scholarly articles in numerous journals, including the Journal of the History of Political Thought and Enlightenment and Dissent. She is also a contributor to Blackwell's Companion to Eighteenth Century Britain and The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.


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"Samuel Taylor Coleridge is remembered as a romantic poet. This reconsideration of Coleridge's thought and career not only demonstrates his importance as a philosopher but recovers romanticism as a political as well as an aesthetic movement. Pamela Edwards radically departs from classic theories of Coleridge's development and interprets his writing against the backdrop of a shifting political and social landscape." Drawing on the ideology, rhetoric, and institutional theory at the turn of the late British Enlightenment, Edwards unearths the fundamental continuities in Coleridge's writing during the revolutionary period of 1794 to 1834, paying particular attention to the rhetoric of Coleridge's pamphlet and miscellaneous writings, the journalism of the Napoleonic years, his philosophical and ultimately political treatises within the contexts of his notebooks and letters, and his readings and intellectual friendships. What emerges is a clearer understanding of Coleridge's political philosophy and his contributions to the origins and ideology of British Liberalism.


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