The Possibilities of Society: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Sociological Viewpoint of English Romanticism

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SUNY Press, 1997 M01 1 - 231 páginas
This innovative book revises many standard assumptions in both literary and sociological fields. Approaching English Romanticism through sociological theory, Hewitt argues that Wordsworth and Coleridge tested hypotheses about social organization and (inter)action in their poetry. She analyzes their achievements in representative works and looks at ways in which Byron, Shelley, and Keats modified the older poets' endeavor. She also describes the context for "poetic" sociology within the intellectual systems of the poets' day, comparing it to the context in which "scientific" sociology was later institutionalized.

Hewitt's work offers a timely reevaluation of the Romantic poets as socially engaged thinkers. Moreover, her reconstruction of a "poetic" sociology identifies an alternative field of knowledge that contemporary scholars might still explore.

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How Is Sociology Possible?
1
The Institution of Sociology
25
Wordsworth Coleridge and the Sociological Point of View
45
Views of the Country
61
Wordsworth and the Institution of Poetry
89
Coleridge and the Configuration of Knowledge
113
Social Change and the Second Generation
131
The Possibilities of Poetic Sociology
161
Notes
179
Works Cited
205
Index
223
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Regina Hewitt is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Florida. She is the author of Wordsworth and the Empirical Dilemma.

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