Reflections of Revolution

Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field

Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction 2. Parts of the body/parts of speech: some instances of dismemberment and healing 3. Reflections of excess: Frankenstein, the French Revolution and monstrosity 4. Pantisocracy and the politics of the ‘Preface’ to Lyrical Ballads 5. Liberty trees and loyal oaks: emblematic presences in some English poems of the French Revolutionary period 6. Radical sensibility in the 1790s 7. Crabbe’s regicide households 8. From terror to terror: Dickens, Carlyle and cannibalism 9. ‘My own mind in my own church’: Blake, Paine and the French Revolution 10. ‘David’s Brickdust’ and the rise of the British school 11. Spectacular fears and popular arts: a view from the nineteenth century 12. Breaking the code: interpreting French Revolutionary iconoclasm; Index