RAYMOND SOUTHALL has been lecturer in English Literature at Sheffield University and, more recently, in Australia. This book, which follows up his Literature and the Rise of Capitalism, deals with English writers of the 18th and the first half of the 19th Centuries, and explores some of the consequences, in literature, of the simultaneous elevation and isolation of the private individual which followed from the development of industrial capitalism.
Raymond Southall sees "awareness of the commonality of human interests" as constant in all great writers-and it is the various statements and resolutions of the conflict between this social awareness and the existing antagonisms between bourgeois individuals and bourgeois society that he traces out in these essays.
Beginning with Swift and Smollett, and the revulsion against urban conditions expressed by the latter, the essays examine in some detail the contrasting poetry of rural life by Gray, Goldsmith and Crabbe, and assess the unique role of Wordsworth as poet not of "nature" alone but of "human nature", and the romanticism of Coleridge. The volume concludes with studies of the two great "social" writers, Jane Austin and George Eliot.
Contents
Prologue
The Novel and the Isolated Individual
Gulliver's Travels: Swift and the Enormities of‘Commonsense'
The Politics of Sensibility
Pastoral Poetry and Rural Life
The Villages of Gray, Goldsmith and Crabbe
The Natural World of Wordsworth
The Social World ofjane Austen
The Romanticism of Coleridge
Mill and Laissez-faire
Fantasy and Reality in Middlemarch
Index
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