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- Title: Melancholy, Trauma, And National Character: Mme de Stael's Considerations Sur Les Principaux Evenements de la Revolution Francaise (Essay)
- Author : Studies in Romanticism
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 282 KB
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IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIFTH BOOK OF WILLIAM COWPER'S TASK, "THE WINTER Morning Walk," the poet offers a paean to English liberties and an admonishment to his times by way of a conjectural history of negotiated rule and the contractual basis of British monarchy, a history he concludes with an emotive tribute to national character: In these fines and those that immediately surround them, Cowper locates his own melancholy as a feature of national character so as to rehearse a standard contrast between the free constitution of the English and the tyrannical institutions of the French, a contrast naturalized in terms of climate, temperament, and political culture: