Rousseau Robespierre and English Romanticism

This Book Reopens The Question Of Rousseau''S Influence On The French Revolution And On English Romanticism By Examining The Relationship Between His Confessional Writings And His Political Theory. Gregory Dart Argues That By Looking At The Way In Which Rousseau''S Writings Were Mediated By The Speeches And Actions Of Robespierre We Can Gain A Clearer And More Concrete Sense Of The Legacy He Left To English Writers. He Shows How The Writings Of Godwin Wollstonecraft Wordsworth And Hazlitt Rehearse And Reflect Upon The Jacobin Tradition In The Aftermath Of The Terror.