Romanticism and the Rule of Law

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This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "The Rule of Law" and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution. The bulk of this study focuses on Romantic literary replies to these events (primarily in the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake), but its latter stages also explore how Romantic poetry's construction of the autonomous reading subject continues to influence legal and literary critical reactions to two modern crises in the rule of law: European Fascism and the continuing instability of legal interpretive strategy.
Mark L. Barr is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.


This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "The Rule of Law" and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution. The bulk of this study focuses on Romantic literary replies to these events (primarily in the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake), but its latter stages also explore how Romantic poetry's construction of the autonomous reading subject continues to influence legal and literary critical reactions to two modern crises in the rule of law: European Fascism and the continuing instability of legal interpretive strategy.

Argues that the construction of reading audiences in the Romantic Period influences legal interpretive strategies in the present day Explores the interaction between Romantic poetry and contemporary legal discourse Posits Romantic literary production as the sublimation of a traumatic threat to the rule of law posed by the British Government reaction’s to the French Revolution

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Mark L. Barr

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French Revolution Poetry Lyric Metaphysics British culture Sublime Albert Venn Dicey Radicalism Autonomy Legal institutions Romanticism

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“Barr has succeeded in producing an effective piece of scholarship, giving a lively account of the legal issues of the day, and developing an ingenious, thought-provoking approach to the intersections between law and cultural production. … Barr has established his place in this field, and anyone who wants to work in ‘Romanticism and law’ will have to engage with this account one way or another. I look forward to any future work from this scholar … .” (Richard Ian Berkeley, The Coleridge Bulletin, Vol. 62, 2023)

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