Rousseau in England: The Context for Shelley's Critique of the Enlightenment

Rousseau in England: The Context for Shelley’s Critique of the Enlightenment by Edward Duffy examines how Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s reputation was forged, mythologized, and transformed in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, culminating in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s radical reinterpretation of Rousseau in *The Triumph of Life*. Whereas Napoleon dominated European political mythology for most of Shelley’s contemporaries, Duffy shows how Rousseau emerged in England as a cultural s...