Journal article
Coleridge and the national debt
- Abstract:
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s reflections on the British national debt recur throughout his work. This article examines his understanding of the economic function of the debt, and contends that his arguments are conditioned by the ideas of moral duty and the social contract derived from Immanuel Kant. The poet’s economics are consequently shown to relate to the ethics of the private debtor-creditor relationship developed in his moral and theological thought. This establishes Coleridge as a forerunner to recent scholarship on the ethics of economic indebtedness, and suggests further avenues for the exploration of debt in the Romantic period and beyond.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/13825577.2016.1274541
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- Grant:
- Sloane Robinson Foundation Studentship
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Journal:
- European Journal of English Studies More from this journal
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 26-42
- Publication date:
- 2017-03-10
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-12-12
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1744-4233
- ISSN:
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1382-5577
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pubs:828077
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828077
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2018-03-06
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- Copyright holder:
- Informa UK Limited
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor and Francis Group. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Taylor and Francis at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2016.1274541
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