Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace StevensThe relationship between literature and religion is one of the most groundbreaking and challenging areas of Romantic studies. Covering the entire field of Romanticism from its eighteenth-century origins in the writing of William Cowper and its proleptic stirrings in Paradise Lost to late-twentieth-century manifestations in the work of Wallace Stevens, the essays in this timely volume explore subjects such as Romantic attitudes towards creativity and its relation to suffering and religious apprehension; the allure of the 'veiled' and the figure of the monk in Gothic and Romantic writing; Miltonic light and inspiration in the work of Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats; the relationship between Southey's and Coleridge's anti-Catholicism and definitions of 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; the development of Calvinism and its role in contemporary religious controversies. Its primary focus is the canonical Romantic poets, with a particular emphasis on Byron, whose work is most in need of critical re-evaluation given its engagement with the Christian and Islamic worlds and its critique of totalising religious and secular readings. The 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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... poem, reconsiders its moments of 'questing after religious faith', its 'profound sense of sinfulness' and its ... poem. The irresolution of the poem, according to Rawes, makes it impossible to extract any definitive declaration of ...
... poem, reconsiders its moments of 'questing after religious faith', its 'profound sense of sinfulness' and its ... poem. The irresolution of the poem, according to Rawes, makes it impossible to extract any definitive declaration of ...
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... poetic language, Cronin identifies a linguistic texture of scepticism in Don Juan and the issues underlying it. Focusing on Byron's public debate with the Lake School about the authority of the poet, Cronin contrasts the 'rigmarole' of ...
... poetic language, Cronin identifies a linguistic texture of scepticism in Don Juan and the issues underlying it. Focusing on Byron's public debate with the Lake School about the authority of the poet, Cronin contrasts the 'rigmarole' of ...
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... poetic stammering when language is 'on its tiptoes, straining to speak about that which beggars speech' (p. 67). His ... poem's adumbration of this paradoxical coexistence of intimacy and distance brings into view a nonsceptical reading ...
... poetic stammering when language is 'on its tiptoes, straining to speak about that which beggars speech' (p. 67). His ... poem's adumbration of this paradoxical coexistence of intimacy and distance brings into view a nonsceptical reading ...
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... poets in their most ambitious visionary mode: firstly, the old problem Milton encountered of how to figure the ... poem where 'the choice between sacred and secular readings of Shelley would seem to be starkest', Bradley focuses on ...
... poets in their most ambitious visionary mode: firstly, the old problem Milton encountered of how to figure the ... poem where 'the choice between sacred and secular readings of Shelley would seem to be starkest', Bradley focuses on ...
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... poem meditates upon and reconfigures Keats's anguish about the role of the 'dreamer' in the world and the aesthetic and ethical implications of complicity with a fevered imagination that feeds upon pain. The unresolved debates between ...
... poem meditates upon and reconfigures Keats's anguish about the role of the 'dreamer' in the world and the aesthetic and ethical implications of complicity with a fevered imagination that feeds upon pain. The unresolved debates between ...
Contents
Milton and | |
Self Nature Society | |
Wordsworths Faithful | |
Southey Coleridge and English | |
Byron | |
Chalmers and the Scottish Religious Heritage | |
Byrons Confessional Pilgrimage | |
Scepticism and the Voice of Poetry | |
Ghostly Closure and Comic | |
Hopkins Keats and the Gratuity of Grace | |
Percy Bysshe | |
Sacred Art and Profane Poets | |
Stevenss Esthétique du Mal Evil | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
The Diction of Don Juan | |
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |
Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Dr Gavin Hopps,Dr Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2013 |
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