Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Coleridge's Laws. a Study of Coleridge in Malta.. ISBN 1906924139 9781906924133 [GB]

Hardback. New. ISBN 1906924139 9781906924133 [GB]

ISBN10: 1906924139, ISBN13: 9781906924133, [publisher: Open Book Publishers] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'This work will change our understanding of Coleridge's politicsand how we read his oeuvre.' Dr. Michael John Kooy (Warwick University, U.K.) Samuel Taylor Coleridge is best known as a great poet and literary theorist, but for one, quite short, period of his life he held real political power - acting as Public Secretary to the British Civil Commissioner in Malta in 1805. This was a formative experience for Coleridge which he later identified as being one of the most instructive in his entire life. In this volume Barry Hough and Howard Davis show how Coleridge's actions whilst in a position of power differ markedly from the idealism he had advocated before taking office - shedding new light on Coleridge's sense of political and legal morality. Meticulously researched and including newly discovered archival materials, Coleridge's Laws provides detailed analysis of the laws and public notices drafted by Coleridge, together with the first published translations of them. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources Hough and Davis identify the political challenges facing Coleridge and reveal that, in attempting to win over the Maltese public to support Britain's strategic interests, Coleridge was complicit in acts of government which were both inconsistent with the the rule of law and ...
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