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1 Introduction<div>2 A Legal Genealogy of the Romantic Imagination</div><div>3 Coleridge’s Poetic Dispensation</div><div>4 Imagination and the Lyric Constitution</div><div>5 Blake’s Perpetual Revolution</div><div>6 The Gospel of Minute Particulars</div><div>7 Epilogue</div><div><br></div>

<div><p>Mark L. Barr is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.</p><br></div>

This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "The Rule of Law" and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution. The bulk of this study focuses on Romantic literary replies to these events (primarily in the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake), but its latter stages also explore how Romantic poetry's construction of the autonomous reading subject continues to influence legal and literary critical reactions to two modern crises in the rule of law: European Fascism and the continuing instability of legal interpretive strategy.<div><br></div><div><b>Mark L. Barr</b> is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br></div><div><br></div>

<p>Argues that the construction of reading audiences in the Romantic Period influences legal interpretive strategies in the present day</p><p>Explores the interaction between Romantic poetry and contemporary legal discourse</p><p>Posits Romantic literary production as the sublimation of a traumatic threat to the rule of law posed by the British Government reaction’s to the French Revolution</p>