Coleridge's Submerged Politics: The Ancient Mariner and Robinson Crusoe

Coleridge's Submerged Politics is part of the increasingly widespread movement to reinstate historical context as a ground of literary interpretation. Central to this study is an exploration of Coleridge's responses to the issues of the revolutionary and post-revolutionary age: the rise and suppression of English radicalism during the decade of the French Revolution and the tragic questions of slavery and the slave trade.