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Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760–1830 by John Owen Havard (review)
Ist Teil von
Eighteenth - Century Studies, 2020-10, Vol.54 (1), p.241-243
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Havard’s interest is in exploring political affect, particularly in sites where politics would appear to be rejected or obscured. [...]he turns in particular to authors who proclaimed their “disaffection” from party politics—from Samuel Johnson’s claim that he would “as soon have a man to break my bones” as talk of politics, to Byron’s 1820 letter stating, “None one can be more sick of—or indifferent to politics than I am” (1). Despite the apparent congruence between Johnson’s persona and his political authority, Havard argues that “Johnson’s writings and wider authorial persona also became a site at which that relationship was thrown into question” (141). [...]the figure of Johnson is both stable and volatile, both authoritarian and also revolutionary. [...]though this book has a broad potential readership, it may disconcert readers seeking more traditional literary readings or expecting an assessment of a changing political landscape in terms of the affiliations of particular figures and their work.