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This is the second chapter of my DPhil thesis, Coleridge and Romantic Obscurity. In my doctoral research, I explored why we attribute pro-democratic significance to 'clarity' and anti-democratic significance to 'obscurity' in politics, philosophy and literature In this chapter, I show how various late eighteenth-century radicals, including Thomas Paine, Joseph Priestley, Mary Wollstonecraft and John Thelwall responded to Edmund Burke's reactionary rhetoric of obscurity with a politicised, radical new rhetoric of clarity.

This is the first chapter of my DPhil thesis, Coleridge and Romantic Obscurity. In my doctoral research, I explored why we attribute pro-democratic significance to 'clarity' and anti-democratic significance to 'obscurity' in politics, philosophy and literature. In this chapter, I consider the emergence of a new rhetoric of obscurity in the work of Robert Lowth and Edmund Burke, and I discuss Burke’s politicised deployment of this rhetoric in the 1790s.

We find ourselves in turbulent times. In the aftermath of the UK's decision to leave the European Union we have entered a dramatic period of political and economic uncertainty the like of which many of us have never known before. And in a climate where no two experts can agree on the best way forwards, there has never been a more crucial time for company bosses and business leaders to create a strategy for change to see them safely through the geo/political and economical storms that lie ahead.

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