The exhilarating news of the French Revolution was the political spark for the literary explosion of English Romanticism, prompting authors to re-conceive what was literarily and metaphysically possible. Their new visions of the world were challenged by developments in France, however, as the idealism of the Revolution suffered through terror, blood, and ultimately dictatorship. This panel would explore how the authors in English Romanticism shaped and reshaped their visions to accommodate ...