Coleridge, Revision and Romanticism: After the Revolution, 1793-1818 (Continuum Literary Studies)

Ve-Yin Tee is Assistant Professor of British Literature at Nanzan University, Japan.

This title presents a cultural-materialist assessment of the after-effects of the French Revolution on English culture, using Coleridge as a case study. The Romantic phenomenon of multiple texts has been shaped by the link between revision and authorial intent. However, what has been overlooked are the profound implications of multiple and contradictory versions of the same text for a materialist approach; using the works of Coleridge as a case study and the afterlife of the French Revolution as the main theme, this monograph lays out the methodology for a more detailed multi-layered analysis.