Coleridge's Submerged Politics: The Ancient Mariner and Robinson Crusoe

by Patrick J. Keane

Coleridge's Submerged Politics is part of the increasingly widespread movement to reinstate historical context as a ground of literary interpretation. Central to this study is an exploration of Coleridge's responses to the issues of the revolutionary and post-revolutionary the rise and suppression of English radicalism during the decade of the French Revolution and the tragic questions of slavery and the slave trade.

440 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1994