Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=gerr20 European Romantic Review ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/gerr20 Reading by the Light of Common Day: Politics, Society, Romanticism Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760–1830, by John Owen Havard, Oxford, Oxford UP, 2019, xix + 296 pp., 4 illustrations.; Systems Failure: The Uses of Disorder in English Literature, by Andrew Franta, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins UP, 2019, x + 215 pp. Colin Jager To cite this article: Colin Jager (2021) Reading by the Light of Common Day: Politics, Society, Romanticism, European Romantic Review, 32:1, 76-83, DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2021.1865977 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/10509585.2021.1865977 Published online: 03 Mar 2021. Submit your article to this journal View related articles View Crossmark data