Table of Contents

1. The end of politics and the end of the world; 2. The last Whigs; 3. Byron, Brougham, and the end of slavery; 4. 'Crowns in the Dust': the ends of politics in The Last Man; 5. New worlds: Frankenstein, The Island, and the ends of the earth.

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A provocative examination of how Romantic imaginings of the end of the world shaped thinking about politics and political change.

About the Author

John Owen Havard is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University. He is the author of Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760–1830 (2019). His articles and essays on the Byron circle, party politics, political emotion, and the future of democracy have appeared in ELH, Nineteenth-Century Literature, The Byron Journal, The New Rambler and Public Books.