Notes
I would like to thank Chuck Rzepka for
conversations about and comments on this essay, Orrin Wang
for some suggestions, and Melanie Adley for reading and
commenting on several drafts.
1. The
radical patriotism of the eighteenth century came to an end
with the American war because of the patriots’
generally pro-American, pacifist stance. After 1780 the
relationship between radicalism and patriotism became
strained, and the next two decades saw the vocabulary of
patriotism enfolded in the rhetoric of
conservatism—although the Tories grew increasingly
fond of the idea of “loyalism” over the idea of
patriotism. See Linda Colley, “Radical Patriotism in
Eighteenth-Century England.”
2. For the
classic statement of Shelley’s aristocratic politics,
see Donald H. Reiman’s “Shelley as Agrarian
Reactionary.”
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