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1、RomanticAtheismexploresthelinksbetweenEnglishRomanticpoetryandthe®rstburstofoutspokenatheisminBritain,fromthe1780sonwards.MartinPriestmanexaminestheworkofBlake,Coleridge,Wordsworth,Shelley,ByronandKeatsintheirmostintellectuallyradicalperiods,establishingthedepth
2、oftheirengagementwithsuchdiscourses,andinsomecasestheiractiveparticipation.Equalattentionisgiventolesscanonicalwriters:suchpoet-intellectualsasErasmusDarwin,SirWilliamJones,RichardPayneKnightandAnnaLaetitiaBarbauld,andcontroversialistsincludingHolbach,Volney,Pai
3、ne,Priestley,Godwin,RichardCarlileandElizaSharples(theselasttwoinparticularrepresentingthecloselinksbetweenpunishablyoutspokenatheismandradicalworking-classpoli-tics).Aboveall,thebookconveystheexcitementofRomanticatheism,whosedramaticappealstonewdevelopmentsinpo
4、litics,scienceandcomparativemythologylenditaproteanenergybeliedbythecommonandmorerecentconceptionof`lossoffaith'.MartinPriestmanisReaderinEnglishatRoehamptonInstituteLondon.HehasalsobeenavisitingProfessoratMichiganStateUniversity.HispublicationsincludeCowper's`T
5、ask':StructureandIn¯uence(1983),DetectiveFictionandLiterature:TheFigureontheCarpet(1990)andCrimeFictionfromPoetothePresent(1998).CAMBRIDGESTUDIESINROMANTICISM37ROMANTICATHEISMCAMBRIDGESTUDIESINROMANTICISM37GeneraleditorsProfessorMarilynButlerProfessorJamesChandl
6、erUniversityofOxfordUniversityofChicagoEditorialboardJohnBarrell,UniversityofYorkPaulHamilton,UniversityofLondonMaryJacobus,CornellUniversityKennethJohnston,IndianaUniversityAlanLiu,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraJeromeMcGann,UniversityofVirginiaDavidSimpson
7、,UniversityofCalifornia,DavisThisseriesaimstofosterthebestnewworkinoneofthemostchallenging®eldswithinEnglishliterarystudies.Fromtheearly1780stotheearly1830saformidablearrayoftalentedmenandwomentooktoliterarycom-position,notjustinpoetry,whichsomeofthemfamouslytra
8、nsformed,butinmanymodesofwriting.Theexpansionofpublishingcreatednewopportunitiesforwriters,andthepoliticalstakesofwhattheywrotewereraisedagainbywhatWordsworthcalledth
