The Majesty of the People Oxford English Monographs

Description:

Links emerging Romantic ideas about the role of the writer to the ambivalence of the concept of popular sovereignty, connecting theories about the role of the intellectual or the writer to the developing contestation of the concept of the majesty of the people during the 1790s.

subjects: English literature, history and criticism, 18th century,  English literature,  History and criticism,  Political participation,  History,  Politics and literature,  Radicalism,  Sovereignty in literature,  Romanticism,  Foreign public opinion,  Politics and government,  Schriftsteller,  Volkssouveränität