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Article: The Statesman's Science: History, Nature, and Law in the Political Thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.(Book review)
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- September 22, 2005
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Pamela Edwards, The Statesman's Science: History, Nature, and Law in the Political Thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(Columbia Univ. Pr. 2004) 294 $45.00
In The Statesman's Science, Pamela Edwards brings another perspective to the recent conversation about Coleridge's politics. Countering the familiar narrative of his fall from radical youth into Tory senescence, imposed by Robert Southey, renewed in the twentieth century by critics such as M.H. Abrams and E.P. Thompson, and adopted as dogma by recent ideological criticism, Edwards sees Coleridge's political biography as a continuous developing path toward what John Stuart Mill identified as a "second ...