Philip Connell is a Fellow of Selwyn College and Newton Trust Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cambridge.

Review from previous edition Fascinating and immensely learned ...Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture' is an important book. It is virtually alone in surveying this crucial but neglected field ... will set the benchmark against which all future literary scholarship on this subject will be judged.

• Introduction: The Condition of England ; 1. 'A Deeper Nature': Malthus, Poetry, and Political Economy ; 2. Moral Culture and the March of Mind: Education and Economics in the Early Nineteenth Century ; 3. The Politics of Apostasy: Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Lake School Literary Conservatism ; 4. Radicals, Reformers, and Legislators of the World ; 5. Robert Southey and the Infections of Commerce ; Conclusion: The Politics of Romanticism

Philip Connell is a Fellow of Selwyn College and Newton Trust Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cambridge.

Review from previous edition Fascinating and immensely learned ...Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture' is an important book. It is virtually alone in surveying this crucial but neglected field ... will set the benchmark against which all future literary scholarship on this subject will be judged.

• Introduction: The Condition of England ; 1. 'A Deeper Nature': Malthus, Poetry, and Political Economy ; 2. Moral Culture and the March of Mind: Education and Economics in the Early Nineteenth Century ; 3. The Politics of Apostasy: Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Lake School Literary Conservatism ; 4. Radicals, Reformers, and Legislators of the World ; 5. Robert Southey and the Infections of Commerce ; Conclusion: The Politics of Romanticism