Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace StevensGavin Hopps, Jane Stabler Covering the entire field of Romanticism from its eighteenth-century origins in the writing of William Cowper to late-twentieth-century manifestations in the work of Wallace Stevens, this collection is an original and much-needed intervention in Romantic studies, bringing together the contextual awareness of recent historicist scholarship with the newly awakened interest in matters of form and an appreciation of the challenges of postmodern theory. |
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... faith in the Romantic period ; the stammering of Romantic attempts to figure the ineffable ; the emergence of a feminised Christianity and a gendered sublime ; and the development of Calvinism and its role in contemporary religious ...
... faith in the Romantic period ; the stammering of Romantic attempts to figure the ineffable ; the emergence of a feminised Christianity and a gendered sublime ; and the development of Calvinism and its role in contemporary religious ...
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... faith that precedes their diverse practices . This inaugural refusal - which means that interpretation in a sense begins before it has begun has been especially prevalent in Romantic studies . Indeed , as Arthur Bradley suggests in the ...
... faith that precedes their diverse practices . This inaugural refusal - which means that interpretation in a sense begins before it has begun has been especially prevalent in Romantic studies . Indeed , as Arthur Bradley suggests in the ...
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... faith , must also undermine the absoluteness of doubt [ ... ] ' . 3 And it is scepticism's paradoxical engendering of its opposite in being most itself that we seem to be witnessing in postmodernity . As John Donne observes in another ...
... faith , must also undermine the absoluteness of doubt [ ... ] ' . 3 And it is scepticism's paradoxical engendering of its opposite in being most itself that we seem to be witnessing in postmodernity . As John Donne observes in another ...
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... faith or the reality of God . " On the contrary , it exhorts faith to be , as it were , on its best behaviour , in wanting ' God ' to be allowed to be God , beyond the idolatry of onto- theology.10 Deconstruction is instead concerned ...
... faith or the reality of God . " On the contrary , it exhorts faith to be , as it were , on its best behaviour , in wanting ' God ' to be allowed to be God , beyond the idolatry of onto- theology.10 Deconstruction is instead concerned ...
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... faith traditions ' , he notes , ' are being endlessly redeployed , reiterated and dispersed beyond the communities for whom they have a specific content and significance.'19 One of the salient features of postmodern religion , then ...
... faith traditions ' , he notes , ' are being endlessly redeployed , reiterated and dispersed beyond the communities for whom they have a specific content and significance.'19 One of the salient features of postmodern religion , then ...
Contents
Approaching the Unapproached Light Milton and the Romantic Visionary | 25 |
Cowper Prospects Self Nature Society | 41 |
Je sais bien mais quand même Wordsworths Faithful Scepticism | 57 |
Catholic Contagion Southey Coleridge and English Romantic Anxieties | 75 |
Sacrifice and Offering Thou Didst Not Desire Byron and Atonement | 93 |
I was Bred a Moderate Presbyterian Byron Thomas Chalmers and the Scottish Religious Heritage | 107 |
Byrons Confessional Pilgrimage | 121 |
Words and the Word The Diction of Don Juan | 137 |
Byrons Monky Business Ghostly Closure and Comic Continuity | 167 |
A Fine Excess Hopkins Keats and the Gratuity of Grace | 181 |
Until Death Tramples It to Fragments Percy Bysshe Shelley after Postmodern Theology | 191 |
Sacred Art and Profane Poets | 207 |
The Death of Satan Stevenss Esthetique du Mal Evil and the Romantic Imagination | 223 |
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Why Should I Speak? Scepticism and the Voice of Poetry in Byrons Cain | 155 |
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Page 12 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all?