The Radicalism of Shelley
and Its Sources
BY
DANIEL J. MacDONALD, Ph. D.
A DISSERTATION
Submitted to the Faculty of Philosophy of the Catholic
University of America in Partial Fulfillment of
the Requirements for the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
WASHINGTON, D. C.
JUNE, 1912
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| Introduction—Nature of Radicalism | 5 |
| Chapter I—Early Influences | 12 |
| Lack of sympathetic home training—Eton—disappointment in love—Oxford,conditions there bad—meets cynic Hogg—both publish The Necessity of Atheism, and are expelled—marries Harriet Westbrook—beginscorrespondence with Godwin—visits Dublin to aid Catholic Emancipation—Conditions of people of England—Caleb Williams—Queen Mab. | |
| Chapter II—Views on Marriage and Love | 36 |
| Parting from Harriet—views on marriage—influence of Godwin, ofLawrence’s The Empire of the Naires—abuses of marriage in differentcountries—the Naires a possible source of Rosalind and Helen—flightwith Mary Godwin—Brown’s Wieland—The Revolt of Islam—TheMissionary an important source of the Revolt—Platonism and his view oflove—Epipsychidion—Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of The Rights of Women—Louvet’s Memoirs. | |
| Chapter III—Politics | 66 |
| Godwin’s Political Justice—every kind of obedience wrong—views onkingcraft—on violence and punishment of death—reform through education—principle of justice—laws—ownership ofproperty—luxuries—vegetarianism—Leigh Hunt—proposal for putting Reformto a vote—Prometheus Unbound—masque of Anarchy—philosophical view of Reform—the perfectibility of man. | |
| Chapter IV—Religion and Philosophy | 87 |
| His views on Christianity—not an atheist—agnostic—sources of views onbelief, Locke, Spinoza, Drummond—God not a creator—Pantheism—God, Love,and Beauty identical—immortality of the soul—idealism—necessity—freedom of the will—good and evil, theirorigin—virtue equivalent to happiness—disbelief in the doctrine of hell. | |
| Chapter V—Radicalism in Contemporary Poetry | 108 |
| Wordsworth—the Lyrical Ballads—The Prelude and Excursion—Coleridge. | |
| Chapter VI—Conclusion | 125 ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |