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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... Response , 1765–1837 , and has begun a further research project on aspects of repetition in nineteenth - century literature and thought . She has published on Dickens , Wordsworth and Byron , and on the Romantic Period Novel . Jonathon ...
... Response , 1765–1837 , and has begun a further research project on aspects of repetition in nineteenth - century literature and thought . She has published on Dickens , Wordsworth and Byron , and on the Romantic Period Novel . Jonathon ...
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... responses to something that holds in reality - without having concomitantly to let go of hope . The notion of active or creative perception - so important to Romantic thought - also calls for reconsideration in the light of the ...
... responses to something that holds in reality - without having concomitantly to let go of hope . The notion of active or creative perception - so important to Romantic thought - also calls for reconsideration in the light of the ...
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... responses to Michelangelo's depiction of The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel by Mary and Percy Shelley , Leigh Hunt ( at home in England ) and other visitors to Rome , Stabler argues that Catholic art led its Romantic viewers to ...
... responses to Michelangelo's depiction of The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel by Mary and Percy Shelley , Leigh Hunt ( at home in England ) and other visitors to Rome , Stabler argues that Catholic art led its Romantic viewers to ...
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... response to the overwhelming nature of God's goodness and a revelling in the cornucopia of poetically heightened language – a pleasure in play and vitality which , for Hopkins , endlessly reflects and refracts the incommensurable ...
... response to the overwhelming nature of God's goodness and a revelling in the cornucopia of poetically heightened language – a pleasure in play and vitality which , for Hopkins , endlessly reflects and refracts the incommensurable ...
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... Responses to Unasked Questions ' , in The Postmodern God : A Theological Reader , ed . Graham Ward ( Oxford : Blackwell , 1997 ) , pp . 265-78 ; pp . 265 ; 267 ) . 40 Karen Leeder , " Glücklose Engel " : Fictions of German History and ...
... Responses to Unasked Questions ' , in The Postmodern God : A Theological Reader , ed . Graham Ward ( Oxford : Blackwell , 1997 ) , pp . 265-78 ; pp . 265 ; 267 ) . 40 Karen Leeder , " Glücklose Engel " : Fictions of German History and ...
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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