A Revolution of Feeling. The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind

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In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called `the most important of all revolutions...a revolution in sentiments`. Inspired by the French Revolution, British radicals concocted new political worlds to enshrine healthier, more productive, human emotions and relationships. The Enlightenment`s wildest hopes crested in the utopian projects of such optimists - including the young poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the philosophers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, the phys

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